Word: neckedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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White-haired, stiff-necked Captain Donald F. Smith was amazed. The contest, he declared, had "degenerated into a farce." The committee meekly called it off. Explained a disgruntled committeeman: "The good captain didn't want to be seen walking down the aisle with a sweep woman on his arm...
When the stiff-necked British Medical Association boycotted the miners' society, Aneurin Bevan got his chance to fight. "It was wicked, the way those fellows stood in the way of our getting health services to the people," he says, "but we won through."
New York City may be sound to the core, but it is rotten around the edges. From Red Hook to Hell's Kitchen in the muttering jungle of New York's 771-mile waterfront, bollard-necked hoodlums have long kept things regular with gun, knife, cargo hook and...
In 1947, on the retirement of Dean Virginia Gildersleeve, Millicent Mclntosh was appointed dean of Barnard. She inherited a heads-up academic program which seemed stiff-necked to some, but which struck a sound middle ground between progressive and traditional methods. Mrs. Mclntosh has made few changes, emphasizes that the...
To end the impudence, the cardinal-archbishop ordered that henceforth marrying couples must promise that no one taking part in the wedding would wear "a low-necked dress, short dress, or sleeveless dress." If any did, "the priest in charge will suspend the ceremony." Cuba's young women, 95...