Word: neck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President woke up with a stiff neck. Same day the elevator that carries him downstairs broke down; trapped, he spent the morning unable to greet John White, new U.S. Ambassador to Peru. Finally White went upstairs...
Outside Kruger National Park, South Africa's famed wildlife sanctuary, prowled a white man and his two black servants, looking for lions. Having no rifle, they set a steel trap-against the law-came back next day to find a full-grown lioness caught by the neck, roaring in agony. Not daring to approach her, they squatted to debate while the frantic animal panted. In the evening the white man decided to wait for the lioness to die, then collect the skin. They waited ten days before the shrunken, weakened beast relaxed and the skinning could begin...
...cleaned them out all right, and then I stuck my neck out again and volunteered to locate our 3rd Battalion, which was beyond a hill a mile away...
...wooden necktie which could be painted any color to suit the mood of the wearer. Vollard and other dealers enabled him to buy a small farm near Paris. There, between the wars, Vlaminck lived, with his wife and two daughters. Dressed in an English tweed shooting cap, open-neck shirt, breeches and puttees, Vlaminck farmed, painted, wrote poetry, drove his big racing car at high speed across the countryside. Today, though he probably does not know it, there is a rising U.S. market for Maurice de Vlaminck's pictures, at prices from...
...experts. Another game, invented by the marines in New Zealand, is played with white rubber balloons, which are inflated and batted through the air. The object is to hit the balloons with lighted cigarets. This game keeps every spectator alert, lest he find a glowing cigaret down his neck...