Word: necked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more than five months, the three unmanned spacecraft have been racing almost neck and neck through the cold blackness of the interplanetary void. Now, as the target looms ever larger ahead of the ships, there is a growing air of anticipation in control rooms back on earth. For the three robot voyagers-one American, two Russian -should this week begin giving man his closest and most penetrating look yet at the planet Mars...
Since late summer, sweater sales have soared. Says a Saks Fifth Avenue spokesman: "Sweaters have been fantastic all over the store." In Saks' junior department, the most popular examples have been the ribbed turtleneck, the flat knit with the plain round neck, and the sleeveless "shrinks"-short, tight numbers. In the designer departments, the bestsellers have been Anne Klein's high-necked sweater with buttons on the shoulders and Bill Blass's long-sleeved U-neck. "When we get in a new shipment from either one," says a Saks spokesman, "they're almost gone...
...drama of display and roaring counterdisplay he broke the older male's nerve. After that, whenever the two met, they rushed up to each other like a couple of rival jocks and worked off their anxiety by hugging, slapping, grooming-and kissing each other on the neck. "Never, however," the author reassures us, "have we seen anything that could be regarded as homosexuality in chimpanzees...
Harvard's John Quirk could only manage a fifth place despite a strong effort at the beginning of the race. Quirk, who finished in 25:55, ran neck and neck with Bates until the last mile and a half when the Princeton captain pulled away...
...chaplain, scorning doctors' advice and generally making a nuisance of himself. Soon he meets a pretty fellow patient with a similar affliction (Nanette Newman). Zapped by love, McDowell begins to sell his poems and stories and even manages to solve the thorny technical problem of how to neck in two wheelchairs. Marriage is inevitable. But not, in this kind of movie, a happy ending...