Word: neckedness
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West Germany's bull-necked Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss (TIME cover, Dec. 19, 1960), who like Brandt is in his 40s and a likely future candidate for Chancellor on the Christian Democratic side, picked up the cudgel. "We certainly have the right to ask," said Strauss in a...
This new novel took 13 years to write and is well worth it. Based on an actual 1889 Paris murder, it offers a long, luxuriant plunge into the gaslit fin-de-siecle world, a time of clip-clopping hansom cabs, plush interiors, swan-necked women in little tilted hats, and...
Skiing had rarely seen anything like it: in three weeks Guy Périllat, 20, had won three international championships-at Switzerland's Wengen, Austria's Kitzbühel and France's Mégéve. Last week, as he returned from his triumphant tour to...
Fowler was always pleasantly known to his boss as "that young man from Denver." He remained young, or at least he retained an impishly boyish notion of what constitutes a great moment in history. He could remember Queen Marie of Rumania's being presented with an honorary headdress by...
Viking, which has raised its sales from $700,000 in 1957 to $8,000,000 last year by aggressive selling, at first tried to cut into the lucrative moonshine market by selling Georgia Moon in the usual narrow-necked bottles (Brown-Forman also puts out a narrow-necked corn). But...