Word: neck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...book, The Origins of Some Naval Terms and Customs, Lieut. Commander R. G. Lowry, R.N., writes as follows: A neckerchief usually of black silk was worn around the neck, and was sometimes used so as to protect the coat from the pigtail, but its real use was as a sweat rag worn around the neck or forehead; it was generally black in colour because this showed the dirt least. The black silk was in general use some years before Nelson's death; it may have been worn as mourning for him following the precedent of the ship...
...Witness Jacob Werber, German, remembered how he was "locked into a dog's cage, a chain was put around his neck, food was handed him in a bowl, and he had to eat like...
Dates often include an evening of study in the library as well as a lingering moment in the shadows by the arches of Eaton Chapel (unless the lady is a "pot" -"a girl you might just as well neck with a lamppost...
...President Clark, an ex-hog butcher, and his conservative fellow officers. They try to do the will of their tumultuous rank-&-file, keep the union's neck in and hold down its strong left wing (led by jut-jawed Director Herbert March of District 1), all at the same time...
...merchants and respectable townspeople realize that the homesteaders are in the right in their feud with the cattlemen, but everybody has too much business prudence to stick his neck out. Everybody, that is, except Mr. Scott, who organizes the homesteaders and brings a specious truce to Abilene...