Word: neckedness
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Selection Process. Destiny may have ordained Indira for India's biggest post, but it took shrewd politicking by others to get her there. When news of Shastri's death flashed across India, Delhi buzzed with the names of possible successors. There was S. K. Patil, 65, the political boss of...
We live. We are not sure our land is under us. Ten feet away, no one hears us. But wherever there's even a half-conversation, we remember the Kremlin s mountaineer. His thick fingers are fat as worms, his words reliable as ten pound weights. His boot tops...
HAYDN: DIVERTIMENTI FOR BARYTON, VIOLA AND CELLO (Nonesuch). Because his patron, Prince Nicolaus Esterhazy, liked to play a hollow-necked, stringed instrument called the baryton, Haydn composed at least 125 divertimenti for it, of which five are exhumed by the Salzburger Baryton Trio. To many ears, the recording will be...
Throughout, the conference was heavily policed by throngs of bull-necked security agents. The opposition Socialist newspaper Al Mouharrir drily commented: "If the Arab League can isolate Israel as completely as the security forces isolated the Casablanca Prefecture, and if the League can divert the Jordan waters as successfully as...
Bull-Necked Throng. At meeting's end, as usual, the League members came up with a bland six-point peace plan that called for, among other things, solidarity against Israel, noninterference in one another's domestic affairs, an end, once and for all, to press and radio diatribes...