Word: necked
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...Jack surely loved those "strangler" metaphors. But he retired, three years ago, with his own neck untouched. He came to Hollywood an unknown quantity and left this world its most legendary hypester. Veni, vidi, Valenti...
...young mercenary in wars across France, the Netherlands and southeast Europe to the edge of the Ottoman Empire. Captured and sold into slavery, he wound up at a remote Black Sea military outpost, where a Turkish officer shaved Smith's head and riveted an iron ring around his neck. "A dog could hardly have lived to endure" the routine beatings and starvation rations that followed, Smith wrote in his colorful and epic autobiography...
...could very easily be increased, if the UC made the decision, however politically difficult, to reallocate some of the money it currently gives to student groups’ sparsely-attended pizza nights to HoCos for their events. The Mather HoCo is onto something: The greater the pain-in-the-neck, the bigger the check...
...still a nonbeliever, consoling myself with the delusion that my budding love of air guitar was of the ironic sort.I was forced to abandon this stance after a particularly aggressive attempt to perfect my “power windmill” stroke. Sustaining air-induced injuries to my neck and strumming arm taught me that, though the tongue begins very much in the cheek of every air guitarist, it is not long before that tongue is bared Gene Simmons-style and lolling about for all to see. “It’s funny,” says Crane...
These days when you look at Chase, you don't at first notice any sign of what happened to him that year--not the fall he took while jumping on the couch nor the paralyzing blow to the neck as he hit the wooden armrest. More and more, Chase can do the kinds of things any other 4-year-old can do. He can walk, albeit with the aid of trekking poles. He can hold a cup and pick up an M&M. He's regained at least some sensation...