Word: neck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That afternoon (at 4:21 by some odd coincidence), a cable was delivered to me at the TIME office. It read: SEND SIZES SUIT, NECK, WAIST AND SOCKS. CLOTHES RUINED BY MOTHS. GOOD LUCK, LOVE. Now I was beginning to feel like a civilian. After all, who ever heard of moths destroying G.I. clothes...
...sunny day last week 26-year-old Corporal Desmond T. Doss stood at attention on the White House lawn. President Harry Truman placed a pale blue ribbon around his neck, shook his hand warmly. As he stepped back-the first conscientious objector in U.S. history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor-generals, admirals, Cabinet members, his proud parents and his pretty wife applauded enthusiastically...
Death under a Dory. The peg-legged man, still alive in 1937, passed the story on to a Boston writer and photographer named Edward Rowe Snow. Shortly thereafter, in the best treasure-hunting tradition, Pegleg Nuskey was found dead under an upturned dory with a towline around his neck. But he had talked to the right man. Snow, a burly descendant of New England sailing masters, had been hunting treasure, unsuccessfully, for 20 years. He began trying to track down the King of Calf Island's gold...
...most dramatic of U.S. race horses came into the world a goblinish sort of creature. As he grew, unlovely bones poked out his chestnut hide like tentpoles. He had an elongated neck. He slept standing up. The Galloping Hatrack looked like an appropriate steed for Sleepy Hollow's legendary horseman, but he had his own legend to make...
...Neck & neck down the stretch last week, battling to be the year's top money-winning racing-stable owner, came two beauty specialists: Cosmetician Elizabeth Arden and Movieman Louis B. Mayer. Arden's Star Pilot won the Belmont Futurity and $52,940. Mayer's Busher won the Hollywood Derby and $40,470 (to become the alltime tenth best moneywinner*). The dollar derby between the stables stood: Mayer $452,605, Arden...