Word: neck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eichelberger flies to his army's shows in an ancient B-17 fitted up for staff use. A man of sometimes reckless courage, he has decided lately to quit sticking his neck out so often-now that he has served 40 years in the Army and sees the war's end in sight. He wants to be sure to see Tokyo...
...Japs themselves were authority for the statement that U.S. submarines had begun to operate in the Sea of Japan. Whether or not that was true, the subs had helped clear the South China Sea of enemy shipping and presumably would be used farther north. Japanese harbors near the neck of the funnel had felt the weight of blows from U.S. aircraft carriers' planes. But the most continuously effective weapon for the blockade of Japan was the Navy's land-based aviation...
Relax. In Pontiac, Mich., the State Barbers Association passed a resolution deploring the practice of reading in barber chairs, explained that concentration on literature tends to stiffen the reader's neck...
...Hope's / Never Left Home, with around a million and a half sales each. Anthony Adverse and Edith M. Hull's The Sheik have each sold some 1,190,000 copies. Quo Vadis and the nostalgic travelogue Our Hearts Were Young and Gay also run neck & neck. And Harold Bell Wright's The Shepherd of the Hills is tied at 1,200,000 with H. G. Wells's Outline of History...
...History of England. He learned by heart the questions & answers in the 48th edition of The Child's Guide to Knowledge, by a Lady ("Question: What bird furnishes military plumes? Answer: That beautiful bird, the common cock of our farmyards: the long streamer feathers of his neck and back, and the stiffer ones of his tail, are formed by industrious females into a variety of elegant shapes, according to regimental regulations...