Word: necked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have no loans around my neck, my children have everything they need. We have a future. And if I had to do it again now?well?" Koco looks back and remembers that night in the woods, and then he laughs, "I might not make...
When the 630 Deputies and 315 Senators of Italy's newly elected legislature assemble for the first time on July 5, it will be something of a neck-craning social event, as well as a political jamboree of uncertain result. Several of Parliament's 378 new members are in fact well-known faces who will add a glow of celebrity to the legislatures. From Turin, for instance, comes Count Luigi Rossi di Montelra, Christian Democrat Deputy and vermouth empire executive (Martini & Rossi), who was kidnaped three years ago; the Count won public accolades for the exemplary stoicism...
Frankly, it was a pleasure to see the Real Paper stick its neck out as it did in this week's account of Cambridge's health inspectors entitled "Caution: Cambridge's Food Inspectors May Be Hazardous to Your Health...
Boylston Street is run-down, and too large, but the Arlington stop is a winning effort. Arlington's walls feature some crazy line-shot murals of Boston landmarks--their chief virtue being that they are placed on an angle, therefore forcing you to crane your neck. The Green Line's Riverside extension is the only subway line in America that stops so golfers can pick up their stray golf balls. Drivers on the Green Line need great dexterity--kids usually line the bridges atop the line and hail rocks down on the big green sitting ducks. The best couple...
...Nonetheless, on most issues the Faculty has been fairly impressed by the meticulous way he studies, and for the most part resolves, the issues confronting the Faculty. But until recently, none of these issues seemed too serious, or perhaps, too philosophical; they didn't require that Rosovsky stick his neck out far to deal with them. Budgets can be dealt with in definite terms--their solution is confined within certain limits and involves specific building blocks. And although Rosovsky says he is concerned that he not earn a reputation solely for being a financial dean--"I don't like...