Word: neck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Princesses went to the theater (Terence Rattigan's bland While the Sun Shines at the Globe). With them was a 25-year-old chaperone, the Honorable Mrs. Vicary Gibbs, good-looking war widow. For once the royal party sat in decent orchestra seats instead of the neck-craning royal box. Squiring Elizabeth was Lieut. Nigel Page of the Blues (Royal Horse Guards), and with Margaret Rose was Lieut. Charles Petherick of the Tins (Life Guards). After the show the Guardsmen took their "dates" straight home, bade them goodnight at Buckingham Palace...
...week Dr. Seaborg, speaking at Chicago, made another momentous announcement. By bombarding uranium and plutonium with high-energy helium ions, he produced two more elements: Nos. 95 and 96. He told little more about them, for like all atomic scientists, Dr. Seaborg still has G-men breathing down his neck. But all elements heavier than uranium are supposedly unstable. Numbers 95 and 96 will certainly be of interest to atomic bombardiers...
Both were wrong. Next day Cairo's crooked streets spawned more trouble. More stores, Arab as well as foreign, were looted, and synagogues in Cairo and Alexandria were set afire. Doughty Premier Nokrashy Pasha personally seized two pillagers by the scruff of the neck, had them arrested. By the second nightfall more than 1,000 persons had been jailed in Cairo alone, many of them for looting...
...prisoner of war, and he carries his broken neck in a leather brace because a Jap soldier hit him with a rifle butt. But Alfred C. Oliver is also a chaplain. Last week, speaking at a Cincinnati bond drive, Colonel Oliver said of the Japs: "These inhuman men starve you to death and work you to death and beat you unmercifully while they are doing...
...blow that cracked the Methodist chaplain's neck did not break his Christian spirit. One morning, he recalled, "the sky was particularly brilliant" and it seemed that "all of the earth was worshiping God. . . . Although the Japs were not like humans, they might still become human. I decided that God was able to create a human, so He must be able to make of that human what He wants...