Word: necked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once I told them that we were eating duck. Because they have so little food they didn't believe me. So I held up a duck by its neck so they could see that we really did have some...
Secretariat-the name has a kind of bureaucratic resonance. But no label could be more deceptive. The regal thoroughbred that carries it is not the tallest horse that ever lived, but he is enormous by any other measure of size or performance. He has a neck like a buffalo, a back as broad as a sofa. His chest is so deep and wide that it takes a custom-made girth to encircle its 75% in. and hold the saddle. And he is still growing...
...Senator is safe. Alice has no immediate plans to return to the West. Home at the moment is a Manhattan penthouse that is, by his own description, "elegantly decadent." Until recently he lived in a 40-room mansion in Greenwich, Conn., complete with a male effigy hanging by the neck in the living room, wall-to-wall mirrors in the bathrooms, swastikas posted on the bedroom walls. The band still lives there. Alice's friends and colleagues describe him as a straight heterosexual (so does Alice), and he has been seen with the same girl, Cindy Long, for five...
What gives him an advantage is his ability to spot "tells," minute tics or mannerisms that telegraph an opponent's hand. "Sometimes," he says, "Ah watch the vein in their neck or wrist. Some players, when they get a big hand, get those veins just a-pumpin'." With more accomplished players, tells are harder to detect...
...face it," he says, "a guy who's been collecting garbage for 20 years is no militant. But when your employer is some elected official who wants to make a show of keeping down taxes, and the worker is the guy who gets it in the neck, you do find a militant...