Word: neckedness
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The firm hand of the British Empire clamped definitely this week around the neck of one of her stiffest-necked subjects. Somewhere in the Empire, perhaps in Cairo, perhaps in the Far East, Premier U Maung Saw of Burma was fussing and fuming under detention.
Bright-eyed, scrawny-necked, 72-year-old Judge Caffey had sat through one year and 18,331 pages of Government testimony to the effect that Alcoa was a trade-restrainer, should be broken up into several parts. He had sat through another 14 months and 22,377 pages of Alcoa...
No stiff-necked hell-roarer, the Nazi's No. 1 engineer is a soft-spoken handsome man of 49 who prefers the tweed coat, breeches and boots of an engineer on the job to his medal-decked Storm Trooper's uniform. Seldom seen in public, he spends the...
The world's deadliest political caricaturist, little-necked, New Zealand-born David Low of the London Evening Standard, this week published his first collection of World War II cartoons, Low on the War (Simon & Schuster, $2). Low, who has cartooned for 39 of his 50 years, declared war on...
To churchgoers asking clemency for a wife murderer who had since got religion and stopped drinking, turkey-necked Governor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia declared: "I wish you Christian people would help me establish whipping posts for drunkards. A dressing down . . . in front of the Courthouses would make them quit this...