Word: neck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...show. Lema moaned about his driving ("I know where to hit the ball, but I can't hit it there") and Nicklaus griped about the greens: "Bumpy, too slow, the worst I've ever seen for a British Open." Player's complaint was a stiff neck, the consequence of trying to do calisthenics in his bathtub. "I can only manage half a backswing," he groaned. Peter Thomson kept quiet-mostly because he had never felt better in his life. For four years, he had been plagued by chronic hay fever, but Royal Birkdale's sea breeze...
Samuel Beckett's Happy Days is a two-hour near-monologue delevered by Winnie, a 50-year-old woman who stands buried first up to her waist, then up to her neck, in a desert mound. She lives in a world people only by herself, her husband Willie, and her "things" -- a shopping bag full of knicknacks, and a parasol. With only Willie and the things as a points of reference, Winnie fills up her days, "happy days," with endless chatter and conscientious dips into...
...Free Democrats won only 8.3%, losing nearly half their 1960 strength, their margin was sufficient to preserve the ruling coalition. Both major parties last week issued the same verdict: "An excellent starting basis for the federal elections." In fact, as Erhard and Brandt are aware, their parties are still neck and neck as they turn into the stretch -with an estimated 23% of the nation's voters as yet undecided...
...devious journey to guerrilla headquarters, Okamura was escorted at a killing pace through the jungle by a 73-year-old woman guide, then was taken in hand by a Viet Cong commissar who wore a cowboy hat, an orange shirt, and had a police whistle strung round his neck...
...helicopters descended on the soccer field at Dongxoai. Out of them poured Vietnamese rangers, who were greeted by a hail of Viet Cong fire. Three fell within a minute; the rest bolted for a ditch by a road. But one hulking figure, a Leica camera bobbing about his neck, threw himself against a hut and started snapping pictures. In the bloody melee, he took some memorable ones: a ranger as he was hit, his hand clutched to his stomach; a Viet Cong, his head popped up over a bunker to stare with surprise at the camera lens; a fallen ranger...