Word: neck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Essence. To Ev Dirksen, the answer to that question is simple enough. "I come of immigrant German stock," he says. "My mother stood on Ellis Island as a child of 17, with a tag around her neck directing that she be sent to Pekin, Illinois. Our family had opportunities in Illinois, and the essence of what we're trying to do in the civil rights bill is to see that others have opportunities in this country...
...Four young Negroes, one swinging a meat cleaver, ranged through the cars, terrorizing passengers on a Brooklyn train. Finally, one yanked open the door of Motorman George Dauenheimer's cab, held the cleaver at his neck and snarled, "Are you black or white?" Dauenheimer said, "I'm white." The Negro shouted, "I'm just going to cut your head off." But when Dauenheimer stopped the train, the hoodlums jumped off. When they tried to break into a change booth, they were arrested and jailed by subway police...
...chosen last week to command one-seventh of the world's people has a turkey neck, a smudgy mustache, and an expression of ineffable meekness. It is a little misleading, insists Lal Bahadur Shastri, the new Prime Minister of India. "I am not as simple as I look...
Carnations for Two. On the outside, aboard Northern Dancer, Jockey Bill Hartack made his move, closed to within a neck. "I leaned over and talked in the horse's ear," said Ycaza. "I kept saying, 'Let's get the Belmont. Let's get the Belmont.' Then I hit him twice." Quadrangle pulled away like an Atlas leaving the pad. At the wire, he was two lengths ahead of Roman Brother, six ahead of Northern Dancer. Jockey Ycaza plucked two white carnations from the wreath around Quadrangle's neck. "One for my wife," he explained...
...scanty wardrobe suggests that she draws her energy directly from the sun-gyrates with a stem-to-stern fury that makes Presley's pelvic r.p.m.s seem powered by a flashlight battery. Ann-Margret isn't worried about his sacrum, she is afraid he'll break his neck in the Grand Pree. But no. They enter a talent contest and tie for first prize-a prepaid honeymoon in Las Vegas. Since they are already there, the picture ends in a hurry...