Word: necked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...become moderator of the once segregated denomination. At his investiture, Bottoms got one of the week's few laughs. As his predecessor put the chain with the traditional cross of office over his head, the new moderator remarked: "Any time any white person puts anything around my neck, it makes me nervous...
Huck himself (Jeff East) has been changed into a sort of homespun civil rights worker who comes easily to his vision of the brotherhood of man. "Why, Jim!" he exclaims, looking at the slave's wounded neck. "Your blood's red same as mine!" Twain's Huck, it will be recalled, was a good deal troubled by matters of conscience, and it took him most of the book to wrestle down the acquired prejudices of Southern boyhood. Hardly a doubt stirs this Huck, of course. He is a real nice boy from the very start -maybe just...
Most Basic Sciences faculty did not like the new system. The first-year schedule had been sliced into small blocks, students were rushed through subjects at break-neck speed, before a startlingly-large cast of instructors who came on for brief stints. Control of the Basic Sciences curriculum had been wrested from the Basic Sciences faculty...
Over 300 athletes competed in the Championships, which a rag-tag group of Crimson cindermen won last year. This time the Greater Boston Club was victorious with 56 points to Harvard's 17, while the Aquid Neck Island trackmen finished with 14 points. Over 20 clubs or associations were represented at the meet...
...LEFT my sister's apartment in San Francisco, for the last time, my brother-in-law shouted after me, "I hope some red-neck driving along takes a pot-shot at you. That'll teach you!" I didn't say anything, it may just have been one of his lawyer's tricks. I just hoped he didn't find out my sister had lent me $20 to hitch back home...