Word: neck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drab jury of ten men and two women retired to consider this point. In 25 minutes they returned a verdict: guilty. A figure in black came to stand beside the presiding justice. Mr. Justice Tucker sentenced William Joyce to be hanged by the neck until he was dead. Then the man in black, a chaplain, intoned "Amen...
...pocket. Usually he gets to his office about 9:30 a.m., goes through his business day in a lope. In winter, he drives from his 14-room apartment on Fifth Avenue; in summer he takes the train into Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station from his 25 acres near Great Neck, L.I., rides the subway to his office...
...Park's $25,000 Will Rogers Handicap. She shouldered her 123 lbs. like a workwoman, got away fifth from her No. 1 post position, scarcely needed the gentle reminders from Johnny Longden's whip, drove hard for her 14th victory in 18 starts-but failed by a neck to make...
...murmur rippled through the tense crowd as the traitor reached the scaffold. The sentence was read again. The executioners lifted him by a leather strap under his armpits into the crowd's full view. They slipped the noose around his neck. Suddenly, in guttural German, Pfitzner half-shouted, half-croaked...
...Tartu beach, who worked neck-deep in the freezing, oil-fouled water day after grueling day, were not particularly brave men, but they came to regard the regular Jap air raids as something in the nature of a diversion. These were the sad sacks of 1942 who would go on to beach LCIs at Saipan and Tarawa, Iwo and Okinawa, who would come back to America to find themselves half-strangers in their own land...