Word: neckedness
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As an epicurean Roman grudgingly won over to evangelical Christianity, highborn Burton is the successful rival of Prince Regent Caligula (Jay Robinson) for the hand of Jean Simmons, a ward of the Emperor Tiberius. When he further annoys the evil Caligula by outbidding him for a particularly stiff-necked Greek...
Catholics, Democrats and Christians were out. So were the Socialists and the Masjumi (Moslem) Party, the nation's largest; both have been moderately sympathetic to the West. Solidly in were left-wing Nationalists and a few obscure parties of the left-wing bloc. Bull-necked Marxist Iwa Kusumasumantri, jailed...
Last week the pot boiled up again for all to see. Spain's stiff-necked Archbishop of Seville, Cardinal Segura, had last year issued one of his pastoral letters protesting even the rudimentary privileges the Franco government gives to Protestantism. This had set off a riffle of objections from...
He burned to acquire land, wealth, and above all, honor in the eyes of his fellow Virginians. He cultivated prominent men. At 21, by virtue of his own eagerness and the good will of Robert Dinwiddie, the colony's stiff-necked royal governor, he set off through the western...
No bones of the creature were found, so Arambourg cannot say what type he belonged to. Certainly he lived a long time ago. The animal bones associated with the fist-axes were of long extinct animals, including the stylohipparion (a primitive horse) and the libytherium (a short-necked giraffe). Arambourg...