Word: necked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Barney") Baker, liar, thief, union bullyboy and hash-house voluptuary, plopped his 284 Ibs. into a red leather chair facing the McClellan committee. For the next two days Teamsters' Organizer Baker answered questions while the heat from overhead television lamps sent sweat from his pomaded hair down his neck into a wilted white collar that flapped outside his tentlike coat. His lawyers had urged him to take the Fifth Amendment. But Baker decided to clown his way through a performance aimed at concealing a grimly important fact: Barney Baker is just the sort of specimen used by his friend...
...Master Sergeant Sam Karst, 34, from Greenville, S.C. kept going up. As the altimeter needle circled past the 50,000-ft mark, his eyes began to glaze, and the veins in his neck stood out like rawhide thongs. After 1½ minutes at an empyrean 55,000 ft. (equivalent to as much as 7½ miles above Evans' peak), Karst had had enough. Said he: "I could have stayed up longer, but I knew I was hypoxied,* so I signaled down...
...foot two and a half tall; I've got to start some time." Replies Robert Morse, his shy fellow clerk: "I'm five foot five, so it isn't so urgent for me." Brought off at breakneck speed amidst a kaleidoscope of neck-breaking pratfalls, this chatter and unabashed clowning by all hands turn Matchmaker into a highly amusing farce...
...home alone in Flint, he said, when two workmen appeared, invited him to a secret organizing meeting. At their plea for haste, he tossed bathrobe over T shirt and trousers, climbed into their old Packard. Outside Pontiac, 40 miles away, his hosts stuck a gun at his neck, doused him with fluid and lit a match. Then they dumped him at the hospital...
...Cartersville, Ga., was taken to St. Joseph's Infirmary in Atlanta, where Surgeon William A. Hopkins found that he had a short stub of gullet extending one-third the normal length down from his throat, then nothing. Dr. Hopkins led this stump out through a hole in the neck, so Tommy could get rid of saliva. For feeding, he ran a tube into the stomach. This worked well for six years, until Tommy was big enough to undergo the operation. Then Dr. Hopkins pushed the gullet stump back into place, stretched a piece of Tommy's large bowel...