Word: necked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tired of being Nader-ized [July 5.] Herewith I declare that the symbolic umbilical cord that Nader has forged between himself and me is now severed. I am an intelligent adult male who is capable of shopping for good products without the help of a breathing-down-the-neck Nader. I have driven for 40 years without an accident, and one of the most enjoyable cars I ever owned was a Corvair. I don't eat foods that are full of sugar because I don't like them. But I have started using everything Ralph Nader deplores...
...recognize that the junta, which has not used violent tactics, is engineering what might be termed a "preventive revolution" rather than a complete upheaval. "With the junta, I lose half of my fortune," explains an aristocrat. "With a more radical revolution, I might lose my entire fortune and my neck as well...
Ghetto and Guard. In the past two weeks, for example, Coll talked Hartford car dealers into sponsoring an outing for several hundred ghetto kids in Rocky Neck State Park, and threw an interracial picnic that drew 2,000 suburban and ghetto residents. He arranged for a National Guard medical team on its two-week active-duty tour to visit his office and give physical examinations to 50 ghetto children bound for 4-H camp. Says Coll: "It was about time the ghetto saw the Guard in a nonriot situation...
Thus, on his day, Colombo moved easily through the crowd, shaking hands, joking, posing for photographers. Suddenly shots rang out, barely audible above the noise of the happy crowd. Colombo crumpled to the ground, bleeding heavily from the head and neck...
Michael D. Felsen of 2022 Massachusetts Avenue and Great Neck, New York; Daniel C. Fisher of Winthrop House and Claremont, California; Kenneth F. Fong of Kirkland House and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Robert E. Friedman of Lowell House and Hillsborough, California; James P. Frosch of Dunster House and Great Neck, New York...