Word: neckedness
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A lanky, long-necked clergyman emerges from the deanery of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, shuts behind him the learning of 40 centuries, gazes wearily down a hill black with automotive traffic, whispers: "Woe, woe is this perverse generation . . . A generation which travels 60 miles an hour must be...
Tennessee's ex-Governor Gordon Browning, defeated by Frank Clement in 1952, published a 2,200-word excoriation of the Clement administration, reporting: "People in vast numbers are restless to know who will challenge the present state administration, and are demanding to be told." To relieve the suspense, bull...
As a member of McClellan's staff, Prince de Joinville asked for no special privileges and got none. He lived a soldier's life, and his pictures reflect a soldier's-eye view of the war, e.g.. his sketch of General Andrew Porter. De Joinville was...
"Ben-Gurion was the flame," said an Israeli, "the other leaders are all moths." Israel's first and only Premier, Ben-Gurion treated his Cabinet like an impatient schoolmaster, required members to carry around the government's Four-Year Plan and invited them to ask themselves each morning...
This time a teen-ager's mother leafs back through her memory book to the scenes of her girlhood. In the old days (1936). Jennifer Goodall was besieged by all types and ages of suitors. She necked, under her father's eye. in the family parlor. She came...