Word: neckedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Tom Doxsee, a good-looking, bull-necked junior, punched him in the belly. Ray doubled up on a daybed and Doxsee hit him again when he sat up. He hauled Cirrotta up by the sweater and gave it to him for the third time. Somewhere along the line, another...
Graham remembered him as a young instructor at North Carolina, where he had been a rangy prodigy who played first base on the scrub baseball team a few years before. Others remembered him on his first trip abroad, a lanky six-footer who used "mouth-filling sesquipedalian words," wore high...
I was nonplussed, I was bewildered . . . to see well-informed and ordinarily accurate TIME report in its May 2 issue that Stan Jones, writer of Ghost Riders,* is a "leathery-necked forest ranger" in Death Valley National Monument . . .
An 18-Hour Day. In his early campaigning days, Muñoz often trekked around in a pajama coat or open-necked shirt. "Putting on a necktie," he says, "alters a man's whole character." He worked odd hours, thought nothing of sitting up all night in a good...
A month ago, 34-year-old Stanley Davis Jones was just another leathery-necked U.S. forest ranger, living quietly with his schoolteacher wife ("Most rangers marry schoolteachers, doggoned if I know why") on the edge of California's Death Valley. Last week, Stan Jones was cruising around Hollywood in...