Word: neck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wasn't looking). In each of them, he keeps complete wardrobes, as well as caches of clothes in half a dozen other hotels across the country. All told, he owns 150 suits, 90 pairs of shoes (plus 52 pairs of golf shoes), numberless outsize shirts (17¾ neck, 37 sleeve), snarls of 58-in. ties (normal length is 52 in.) and "a helluva lot of hats...
...reached 4,000,000 cars-nearly 1,000,000 ahead of the same time last year. Lion's share of this booming market has gone to the standard-sized Chevrolet, which is rolling toward sales of 1,000,000 1962 cars this year. Ford, which usually runs neck and neck with Chevy, is far behind, with production of its standard-sized Galaxie barely topping 400,000. (Counting all models, Ford has produced 842,000 cars since January, v. 1,300,000 for Chevy.) At the bottom of the heap among the Big Three is Chrysler, whose production of four...
...Ligurian Sea. Her hair, done up in a bun, hung down in humid strings about her face and neck. He was rumpled. Both were tired from filming Jean-Paul Sartre's The Condemned of Altona in the town of Tirrenia. In one of those private moments that public figures rarely show the world, Sophia Loren wrapped her brawny arms around Carlo Ponti, her short, balding spouse, in a tender Neapolitan embrace. The photographers were not far away...
...that he could join the two separated sections of her esophagus-but the sections were too far apart to be sewn together. All the surgeon could do was close the opening between esophagus and windpipe, and bring the end of the upper section of the esophagus outside the neck to provide drainage; Denise would depend on the stomach tube for feeding. At 6 a.m., the second incision was closed. Denise was soon able to take in and dispose of liquids...
...prisoner in solitary on bread and water: "White or rye?" Says an inmate to a guard: "Let's get one thing straight, McPherson: I live here, you just work here." Occasionally Reese slips into macabre, sick-style prison humor: "Ain't I a pain in the neck?" says the hangman to the condemned. But some of his cartoons rise to a choking pitch of bitterness, a stifled scream: "You with the dignity," a guard shouts at a curiously proud marcher in a gang of grey. "Get back in line...