Word: necked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John Ehrlichman threw a tennis ball high in the air, and lashed at it, his neck cords straining. " ?The Ends of Power...
...help me, that's in there, on page 232. And it isn't supposed to be a joke. But anyone who has seen my tennis serve will tell you that the verb lash is not the one most people use. The last time my neck cords were straining is an event lost in the mists of memory...
...simply a matter of height and blondeness and blue eyes. Her cheekbones are set wide under a tanned breadth of untroubled forehead, and the result, by some trick of geometry, is a face whose expressions are astonishingly warm and open. Her great length of shank and neck give a powerful impression of health and muscular strength, and there is a sense of physical well-being conferring a benison on her. Some other beauties suggest the inviting possibilities of evil. Tiegs' clear and uncomplicated healthiness suggests that there is no such thing...
...composing eulogies yet, this book just came out last week. And it's got some folks in a dither, like Ehrlichman, who blasted Haldeman in Time magazine for representing his tennis serve as a "lash," and describing his neck cords as "straining." No such luck, says Ehrlichman, and what really got to him was Haldeman's use of the Woodward/Bernstein method of reconstructing quotes from memory, lines I never quoth, says Ehrlichman...
...assailant apparently surprised her on her way home from Harvard Square, three blocks away, and stabbed her numerous times in the chest and neck, Cambridge police said yesterday...