Word: neck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...monster intricately built of cable, hooks and steel joints prepares to jerk a noose around a Jap's neck-as the Rising Sun sets in the background...
Conservative credo. "I stand for sovereign freedom of the individual, within laws which freely elected Parliaments have freely passed. I stand for the rights of the ordinary man to say what he thinks of the Government of the day, however powerful, and to turn them out neck and crop if he thinks he can better his temper or his home thereby. . . ." Churchill found few differences between the Conservative and Liberal Parties ("There is scarcely a Liberal sentiment which animated the great Liberal leaders of the past which we do not inherit and defend...
...program with monthly propaganda plugs-about waste fats, car pools, etc. The funniest part is that the customers like it. Last week Fibber & Molly (Jim & Marion Jordan) pitched their 30th Government plug, a Wistful Vista bond rally; they also edged ahead of Bob Hope again in their neck-&-neck race for program popularity...
What the heck is an Old School Tie? Is it the "tie that binds" type of tie, or something to adorn a gentleman's neck? I take it that an Old School Tie is something to be worn by graduates of English schools, . . . but whether every graduate wears the same kind or whether the members of one club wear one kind of a tie and those of another club, another. ... I have no idea...
There are pretty young girls and a few pregnant matrons among them. There is also Aning Andao, a wizened old lady in a brocaded black head cover, grey striped shirt and patched quilted skirt, wearing an athlete's gold medal around her neck. She has the milky rings of old age around her irises and old cigar stains on her teeth, but she can climb and carry with the best of them...