Word: necked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that child's parents realize that in hanging their hate message around her neck, they have truly hanged their own daughter...
...situations, go over the routines and situations many times, and then retain in a fixed play whatever worked out best. They were kept from getting truly involved in the play because the situations were difficult to overcome and the ending a tremendous millstone (albeit funny) around the plot's neck...
...Calvin Murphy. While the sellout crowd in the Princeton gym roared its approval, Murphy moved into the keyhole and fed passes to teammates moving around him in a fast, figure-eight weave. Looking one way and passing another, he fired the ball behind his back, around his neck and through his legs. At one point, he fell down but somehow kept dribbling the ball while rolling on the floor. Then, twirling the ball on one finger, he took two steps, lifted his small 5-ft. 10-in. frame up, up and away toward the basket -and actually stuffed a shot...
...Tallulah, La., looks and acts the archetypal Southern cop. There is the ample belly hanging over the gun belt as the massive, 6-ft. 2-in. figure swaggers down the sidewalk. There is the natty uniform with gold stars on a white starched shirt, a button open at the neck. And there is the amiable cockiness, the touch of braggadocio, the blunt cigar and the smile revealing two gold-crowned teeth. Only one anomaly destroys the stereotype: Chief Wyche is black...
There is no joy in the gym. It looks more beguiling and comfortable than your living room-indirect lighting, wall-to-wall carpeting, floor-length mirrors-but right away you begin to hurt. "Hear that grinding noise?" says your chesty instructor, as he leads you through some neck rotations. "You're breaking down calcium deposits." During the pelvic lift, he explains: "This is good . . . one and two and lift . . . for hypo-kinetic tension . . . and two and hyperventilate. Bet you can't kick your butt," he says, kicking his butt. He is right...