Word: necked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...billed himself as a man who could grab Washington by the scruff of its neck and shake some sense into it. But when Jimmy Carter left the capital last week after a hectic two-day visit, the self-styled "outsider" smiled and allowed, "I feel at home here." Washington seemed to feel at home with...
That is exactly what happened to one 72-year-old woman. A year ago, neighbors found her lying in her bathtub, blood clotted on her head, a stocking twisted around her neck, and her arms trussed behind her. She had lain there for two days. The next day, the doctors amputated one arm; recently they had to remove the other...
Tall, thin Thomas Fitzgerald, 19, a junior at Queens College, stood in the crisp night air on Indian Island, a 50-acre patch of scrub just 50 feet off Long Island's South Shore. From his neck, in front of his chest, hung a strip of 2-by-4 wood, 20 inches long. On it was scrawled "P.O.W." Fitzgerald, a member of the St. John's University Reserve Officers Training Corps program (Queens College has no ROTC unit) was trying to get into the corps' Pershing Rifles fraternity. According to police, he and nine other pledges were...
...Myers as the side-kick Sylvertro turns in the best performance of the evening; his character's personality is one of the few that emerges clearly in this relatively homogenous cast. Myers' physical control enables him to demonstrate the sophistication of Hamlin's direction; each twist of the neck and slide of the back shows perfect tuning. Paul Redford as the humpbacked Geronte and James Holt as the insipid suitor Leandro are also quite good...
...during his governorship (he was never indicted), Hearnes was on the defensive much of the time. Danforth can be a tough political infighter on issues he cares about-notably, the curse of Big Government. He has vowed to go to Washington "and be somewhat of a pain in the neck...