Word: neckedness
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Boxcars to Breakfast. At 4 a.m. the floor was cleared for more dancing-much more enthusiastic dancing than at the gym-and at 5 o'clock the party moved to the depot for a train "trip to the Orient" (Orient being a hamlet twelve miles away). The orchestra hit...
Mrs. Gaskell nonetheless worked under two handicaps: 1) a good many facts were not available to her, and 2) Charlotte's stiff-necked husband regarded her with wary distrust. Now another English novelist, named Margaret Lane, has hit upon the happy idea of interweaving long sections from Mrs. Gaskell...
Dulles stayed in Israel two days, listened to anxiously presented analyses, promised nothing. At his departure, "Premier David Ben-Gurion (who showed how important he thought the occasion was by abandoning his open-necked shirt for a gabardine suit and patterned necktie) handed the Secretary a new Hebrew Testament, the...
In California, Balboa and nearby Balboa Island (combined pop. 4,873) were inundated by an even greater flood of noisy youth-35,000 boys & girls from schools in the Los Angeles area. For ten days they swam, sailed, necked, danced, drank, clogged traffic with their cars. Up the coast at...
Bull-necked Lavrenty Beria has had previous experience in purging purgers: in 1938, when Police Chief Yezhov was destroying his predecessors for staging "medical murders," Beria moved in, destroyed Yezhov's apparatus and became in his stead the killer of killers.