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Word: neck (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even opened" as he knocked around the Seattle Fair last weekend, wandering between packing cases, wet plaster walls and flying paintbrushes. He found the pre-opening atmosphere exhilarating, and concluded that Seattleites "love the idea of the fair, but hate the thought of strangers' finding what a nice neck of the woods they live in. They hope people won't come out and take them over." Hall is a world's fair buff who has never seen one before. He has been longing to ever since his parents in Jackson, Miss., would not let him hitchhike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Apr. 27, 1962 | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

Laid low by a lump in his neck, ebullient Comic Jackie Gleason, 46, underwent surgery in Manhattan last week, rebounded with rotund resiliency and was soon eating and talking and eating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 27, 1962 | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

...this sick little clan discharge their tensions into a fragile lightning rod, a sensitive young tutor (Maximilian Schell), who longs almost pathetically to please his "new family." In return, the man of the house ignores him brutally, the son despises him vocally, the mother starts shamelessly breathing down his neck. In the end, they drive him to attempt suicide, and in his glassy eyes they see the death they have been living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rags to Wretchedness | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

...neck is that long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 20, 1962 | 4/20/1962 | See Source »

Broken Vessels. The worst injuries in boxing occur when a fighter's neck muscles are relaxed, so his head can bounce like a punching bag on a spring. Such was the case with the groggy Paret on the ropes in the twelfth. With a trip-hammer succession of alternating right uppercuts and left hooks, Griffith slammed Paret's head from side to side. Different parts of Paret's brain were hit by the overlying skull with enough force to break blood vessels between the middle (arachnoid) and outermost (dura mater) layers of the brain's covering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Aim is to Maim | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

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