Word: neckedness
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The prisoner was strapped to a wooden stake and, against his wishes, blindfolded with a black scarf. Then a military police captain barked an order to the black-helmeted, ten-man firing squad lined up 30 ft. from the prisoner, and the soldiers raised their U.S.-made carbines. The captain...
Moved by the significance of the new program, and doubtless by the arrival of spring, French Finance Minister Valéry Giscard D'Estaing composed a poem to mark the occasion. Giscard, who once donned a V-necked sweater to give his own anti-inflation program a soft, living...
The girls have shining hair, and they wear colorful, skintight ski pants the year round, while the boys are usually beardless and strong-featured in their bright, V-necked sweaters.
But for all its poverty, Somalia is a stiff-necked nation. Its people pride themselves on their Hamitic heritage, their nomad hardiness. No Somali youth feels secure without an iron bracelet-won only by killing two men in combat. Argumentative and fiercely antiauthoritarian, the Somalis are often called the "Irish...
As he babbled on, quieter but more dangerous men were busy. Back from the mainland, where they had gone in case the coup failed, rushed the people who would lead "the people": Afro-Shirazi Party Boss Abeid Karume and Umma's Abdul Rahman Mohammed, better known as "Babu" (Swahili...