Word: necked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decide whether or not to really red-neck it up and bring a sheet that says 'North Augusta, S.C. loves the Red Sox'," Sam said. "If I have time, I might make...
...Magnificent Seven. In the fifth grade, this was one of my favorite movies, and a very popular favorite at Lincoin Avenue School. Not having seen it since then, I'm reluctant to stick my neck out. There are a bunch of stars in it (Yul Brynner, Kirk Douglas, maybe, or Montgomery Clift), and it is a western. I do know that it was lifted from Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, and that the great Japanese director was so angered by the Hollywoodization of his classic that he made Yojimbo to satirize the genre, and particularly the joke of American-individualist hero...
Harvard is up to its neck in labor difficulties. The National Labor Relations Board heard two Harvard labor disputes during the past year, one of which is still pending; sex discrimination complaints at Harvard and elsewhere are on the rise; three major contracts between the University and unions either have already or will expire this fall. "We don't need a union to tell us we have problems," Edward W. Powers, Harvard's new director of employee relations, says...
...seems to have bypassed the young and hit hardest at the elderly. In Mississippi, for example, the median age for SLE victims is 70, and there have been relatively few cases in people under 40. SLE's younger victims usually suffer nothing worse than a moderate fever, stiff neck, severe headaches and some lassitude. The aged are more likely to run high fevers, have convulsions and, especially if already debilitated...
...cover story on the Portuguese situation [Aug. 11]. And what a cover it is. The gentleman on the right (Costa Gomes) could pass for Frankenstein's twin brother; the one in the center (Gonçalves) looks like he's ready to bite someone on the neck, and the one on the left (Carvalho) really looks like he's on the left...