Word: neck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will note . . . that a young heifer . . . is being used in this test. What's more, she has a little sissy collar of flowers around her neck! And that, of course, makes it strictly junior or bush-league stuff...
...your secular government do nothing else than tax and extort . . . until the poor and common man can no longer endure it. The sword is hanging over your heads, and yet you think that your seat in the saddle is secured. Such obdurate foolhardiness will cost you your neck. You must change and obey the Word of God. And if you do not do it willingly and friendly, you will be forced to do it through violence. If these peasants do not do it, others will. God will and must punish...
...brown hair, the artist had turned his mistress into a slow, serpentine spiral, given her an other-worldly beauty which would be horrible in real life. Like El Greco, Modigliani liked to stretch people out of human proportion. He graced Madame Hebuterne with the neck and shoulders of a swan. The small, vacant eyes and ski-run nose looked less than human, gave her face the blank, melancholy look of an African mask...
...annoyed when newspapers, as they often do, call her 60. She has a Perleberg birth certificate dated February 27, 1888, and after producing it last week, added: "It has cost me so many tears, you have no idea. I should wear my birth certificate on a chain around my neck!" She is bubbling with health, and looks somewhat like a motherly Hausfrau, which she isn't. ("There's not an atom of Hausfrau in me., It's really dreadful...
...children in his school, the majority of whom had tales to tell which the District Attorney described as "the most depraved stories of immorality I have ever heard." Wife Laura Balles, 35, who described her life with Headmaster Balles as "idyllic bliss," was up to her neck in whatever he was doing to the children...