Word: neck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rift in the Ranks? Against fusion and Nenni were the highly respected right-wing Socialist delegates, Giuseppe Saragat (proletarian in suspenders and a cheap cotton shirt open at the neck) and Novelist Ignazio Silone (Fontamara). Cried Saragat: "It is not by chance that the slogan of 'fusion' is launched simultaneously from Norway to Italy. . . . Russia seeks guarantees for herself through territorial conquest and creation of buffer states. ... If socialism renounces its complete autonomy, the interests of the working class will be subordinated to the interest of one state. ... To speak of fusion ... is to cause a possible rift...
...injured men with "white faces, their hands blistered so badly that water was dripping from their fingers and their scorched and hairless heads. . . . Men, both living and dead, were terribly mangled. .... We found one worker pinned under a twisted column. There was a piece of steel reinforcement through his neck. . . . There was another chap [whose legs were] buried under a pile of bricks and debris. ... He told us to get him out and never mind his legs, 'leave them there...
...zone. A grey old man stood on a curb. Beside him a tattered cadaverous woman leaned apathetically against a shell-scarred tree. On the pavement before them lay a long bundle wrapped in a frayed black dress and held together by a string drawn around the ankles and neck of the corpse inside. The three were refugees from the East. They were thumbing a ride out of town to a spot where the dead could be buried and the living could move...
...wall. One of the legislators was Newspaperman Henry Hulme Sevier, founder of the Austin American. By the time he married the fiery-eyed, sabertongued heiress in 1906 she had written two novels, a musicomedy (Mexicana) which the Shuberts produced on Broadway. And she was already up to her pretty neck in politics, business, philanthropy...
Direct Hit. In Seattle, James Hearn sustained a sore neck when he lost his balance, fell three floors down an air shaft, landed in an easy chair...