Word: necked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...policies and personnel of the Nixon Administration and has been putting plenty of distance between himself and the White House. "Now," he says, "when people hi my district talk about Watergate, I'm wholly divorced from it. There's no way they can wrap Watergate around my neck...
...technique used in the 1800s in which a prisoner is choked to death and his spine snapped by an iron collar being tightened around his neck...
...dreams Swimming with calico carps And riding Dalmatian giraffes Climbing bougainvillea vines into the skies I treasure your happiness As you hopscotch in the early rain Or tag me with bean bags And kiss my bruised neck ... -Bill Bonanno from an untitled poem to his daughter Gigi...
...that and other insolence, the group's leader, Black Bart (Cleavon Little) is about to be hung. With the noose around his neck, Bart wins a reprieve--from Hedley Lamaar (Harvey Korman), the governor's scheming aide-de-camp. Lamaar convinces Governor Lepetomane (Mel Brooks) to make Bart the sheriff of the peaceful Western town of Rock Ridge. Lamaar figures that the spectre of a black sheriff will drive the citizens away, enabling him to buy their land and sell it at a huge profit to the railroad...
...least more honest than England's unpunished rich people, but mostly they're too busy trying to sell each other out. At the end, Macheath the highwayman--the original of Weill's and Brecht's Mack the Knife, in their updated Threepenny Opera--stands with a rope around his neck while a beggar-narrator explains that for strict poetical Justice he'll have to be hanged and all the other characters hanged or transported, but that as in operas it doesn't matter how absurdly things turn out, he'll be reprieved instead. Then the characters dance a nice dance...