Word: necked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...check suitcases for liquor before departure. DiCara, who looks much older than 21, recalled with a laugh one special episode on the trip. "I was dancing with a couple of gals and really keeping up with them. I love to dance and I was wearing this white turtle neck, pretty avant-garde for me. So I got a standing ovation from the band for bridging the generation gap," he said...
Henson was in complete control and way ahead in points when Metzger attempted an escape by rolling out of Henson's grasp. Henson, the stronger of the two, held on. After two and a half sommersaults. Metzger found his entire body supported vertically by his own neck. Three seconds later at 4:58 the bout was over...
...chairman of the undergraduate Admissions and Scholarships Committee and as a Freshman Adviser, Cotton, who has been at Harvard since 1944, has maintained a dual affiliation with the College and the Ed School. "It's useful to have someone at the Ed School," he said, "wading up to his neck in the secondary schools all across the country. I'm proud of that...
...Coco sprang no surprises, only refinements on what was her classic look: the short, straight, collarless jacket, the slightly flaring skirt, and hems that never budged from mid-knee length. Wearing the broad-brimmed Breton hat that was her hallmark, her scissors hanging from a ribbon around her neck, and her four fingers held firmly together in spite of severe arthritis, she would feel for defects. Working directly on the model, she often picked a dress apart with the point of her scissors, complaining that it was unwearable. Her fashion empire, at her death, brought in over $160 million...
Around the Neck. For most of his adult life, Kinsolving, 43, has been an advocate. His first career, before entering the seminary, was in advertising and public relations. Two years after his ordination, while rector of a parish in Pasco, Wash., he burst into national news in 1957 by preaching that "Hell is a damnable doctrine." Later he became a lobbyist for Bishop lames Pike in California, charged, among other tasks, with persuading the state's legislators to vote for liberalized abortion laws. During his career as a lobbyist, he began writing for the San Francisco Chronicle. After Pike...