Word: neck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...amazement, expecting to find these common men of the German Navy a beaten lot, I found arrogance and firm belief in Nazi doctrine. Peculiarly, Goring was referred to as "that bastard." In the midst of my enlightenment a Kraut C.P.O. stuck his neck through the watertight door intoning in guttural Low German the fear that I was a reporter-"Seid still!" Why do we continue to fail so miserably? (NAVY ENSIGN'S NAME WITHHELD) Philadelphia
Bing Crosby was neck-&-neck with Frank Sinatra. Week after a truck full of The Voice's recordings was attacked by hijackers in The Bronx (TIME, Feb. 25), thieves in Brooklyn swiped a truckload of The Toupee's platters...
...tool" of the Nazis) from resuming as conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, was permanently banned by U.S. military government authorities. Brigadier General Robert A. McClure decided that the famed conductor's early anti-Naziism had weakened. As he had last December, Jewish Violinist Yehudi Menuhin bravely stuck his neck out for his fellow artist, cabled the General: "I beg to take violent issue. . . . The man was never a Party member ... I believe it is patently unjust...
Olsen, with his long stride, managed to shake off everyone but Dartmouth's McLane. The two raced neck & neck through the New Hampshire woodland, along a hillcrest, over rolling meadow. Then Olsen called on his last reserves, forged ahead, won by 14 seconds. But McGill still trailed Dartmouth by two points. All depended on the last event-the jump...
Cathie (Deborah Kerr) represents wifely charm in a mousey woolen bathrobe, a muffler around her neck, sleep in her eyes, a cold in her nose. In an early-morning coma, Robert (Robert Donat) moves speechless and heavy-lidded about the drab little flat. First, the clean collar, the neat cravat. Then a cup of tea, a glance at the clock, a peek at the barometer, and down the stairs and off to his job as a bookkeeper, a symbol of hopeless, conventional timidity...