Word: necked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taking the Old Man of the Sea upon his shoulders, Sindbad the Sailor thought he was merely performing a small favor. But once the Old Man's legs were locked about his neck, Sindbad seemed doomed to carry his burden forever. This theme, that one good turn deserves another, and another and another, runs like a magic thread through nearly half the 13 short stories in this new book by Bernard Malamud, 44, an assistant professor of English at Oregon State College whose The Assistant (TIME, April 29, 1957) was one of the best of last year...
...threw himself in front of a passing truck, which crashed into a wall, ran in front of another, which rolled down a 20-ft. embankment, escaped from the two angry drivers by jumping on a nearby horse, galloping to a railroad bridge where he tied a rope around his neck and tried to hang himself, was cut down breathless but unhurt by passersby, ended up in jail charged with damages to the trucks...
...brother grasps a brother by the neck and drags him down the corridor. "Whaddya know...
...women loved each other "with a love surpassing that of friendship." Their ardent relationship was only intensified by the fact that male admirers fairly swarmed around both of them-readily swooning when the "dazzling Juliette" draped her graceful neck around a harp and plucked a few plangent twangs, readily reaching for underdoses of poison when frustrated amour demanded the appearances ol a tragic exit...
Fulbright Scholarships for study abroad next year have been awarded to John S. Mautner '58, of Adams House and Elmsford, N.Y., Robert S. November '58, of Kirkland House and Great Neck, N.Y., William M. Johnston '58, of Eliot House and Jamaica Plain, Mass., and John R. Kramer '58, of Lowell House and Hudson...