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Word: neck (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five that eat together and try to ignore everyone else, but things are fluid enough so that everyone has some casual friendships (casual in the sense of chance). Few are aware of it, but it is these casual friendships that are one of the millstones around the Cliffie's neck. Watch out for causal friends! Your casual friend is the girl who tells you she is about to start piano lessons or the girl who shows you the new boots she's bought, the girl you hear has just gotten an A on her anthropology paper or the girl...

Author: By Anne DE Saint phalle, | Title: I Live at Radcliffe Let Me Out | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

...church members shouldn't have left; Forman should have-by the nape of his neck and the seat of his pants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 30, 1969 | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

...Wilson stand. The Prime Minister felt so confident that he was able to brag to a May Day rally: "I know what is going on. I am going on. Your government is going on!" Wilson thereupon confided that he intended "taking this country by the scruff of the neck" and forcing it to do what was needed to be done, regardless of the consequences to the Labor Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: The Edentulous and the Myopic | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

...used for occasional longer trips. As the initiate knows, the Mach I is neither spaceship nor sound barrier. It is a hyped-up Mustang-one of Ford's fast-moving contenders in what Detroit calls "the muscle-car" market, where the best sales pitch is neck-snapping acceleration. The new Mach I, which can be ordered with an engine of up to 335 h.p., already accounts for 22% of all Mustangs sold. There are many other muscle cars, and they now constitute at least 5% of the entire new-car market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: The Muscle-Car Market | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

...ever-more-erotic and exciting Straight Backwards Time (S.T.B.), Billy the Surf Bum's mother was gazing at her navel (belly-button to you). she was entranced. in her navel were crawling four miniature St. Bernard puppies, each with a cask around its neck containing the hole whorl. "my, mmmmmmmmmy," Billy the Surf Bum's mother was saying. "i do hope my seeking son can bark better than the first. hardly since the beginning of time has man ever discovered. . . . why why why x y y? people should be more aggressive in their searches for trooth. it's more manly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Whole Yoke Sent Her | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

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