Word: neckedness
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(4) The objectives of the Velde and Jenner hearings is not to legislate but to root out dissent. The means used are to expose and humiliate nonconformists (a term explicitly including New Dealers), to compel confession, to create informers, to deprive the stiff-necked of their jobs, to terrorize the...
From every nook in Germany they came. There were 119 generals and 40-odd colonels-much of what is left of the stiff-necked high command of Hitler's Wehrmacht. They met early this month in a smoke-filled beer hall in the U.S. zone city of Stuttgart; their...
Focusing on the Germany around him, Grosz became one of the most savage satirists in modern art. His enraged cartoons of blood-spitting consumptives, marble-jawed army officers, mincing whores and bull-necked burghers provoked Hitler to call him "cultural Bolshevist No 1." Grosz hated Germany, and he yearned to...
Behind Britain's front against Communism in Malaya stand British colonials, whose stiff-necked disdain for Malay and Chinese alike has made the struggle harder. Last June, the Selangor branch of St. George's Society, a British get-together club, sent out dinner invitations to the Sultan of...
There is a legend that, back in their St. Louis days, the bull-necked Skourases sometimes wrestled film exhibitors for rentals. Today, their principal form of exercise is golf, but all three are still health fanatics and diet cranks. Skourases gobble quantities of fruit, cheese, olive oil and yogurt-the...