Word: neck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...charged with murdering his 12-year-old sister with a sharp kitchen knife. ¶ In The Bronx, three teen-age Negro girls, members of a gang known as the "Fivies," were charged with mugging a shopkeeper named Samuel Flamenbaum. Said he: one girl crooked an arm around his neck, choked and held him, while the other two stole a pair of shoes...
...cell. Chief Hangman Albert Pierrepoint, 37, made things snug for his first solo job since taking over from his Uncle Thomas, then went to bed in the prison library. At 6 Joyce rose and washed, but did not bother to shave. At the gallows Pierrepoint was waiting. Round the neck of the frozen-faced traitor, he expertly draped the noose. Then he sprang the trap...
Almost two decades have passed since Wall Street was entertained by the neck & neck race between National City Bank's Charles Mitchell and Chase National Bank's Albert Wiggin for the title of the nation's biggest bank. Chase won out, via mergers with other banks, and held its lead till three months ago. Then a brash West Coast upstart, old A. P. Gian nini's Bank of America, pushed past...
...Millar the name seemed almost as awful as the Gestapo. "Visions connected with this ghastly name flashed through my head. I saw stalwart foresters laying back their heads until the neck cords showed like bared intestines, but their voices came in a shallow unison pipe: 'Oh, Désiré.' I saw the German questioners in Gestapo headquarters. Their leader aid: 'We give you one last chance, Captain Er, Captain Um, Captain Désiré.' I aw a woman with gold teeth and dirty hair who came towards me asking...
...along: some of the biggest stories of the year had come out of Harry Truman's 25,000 miles of travel. Lately, like Franklin Roosevelt, he had taken to making his news in casual ways, at unexpected places. And if he made news by risking his neck, that news had to be covered...