Word: neckedness
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Hope for Tomorrow. The most encouraging sign for Christian Germany, said Barth, had been the stiff-necked resistance of the Confessional Church leaders who stubbornly continued throughout the war to pray for peace instead of victory, aided the Jews, consequently kept themselves in constant hot water with the Nazis. In...
The star performer was Paul Bellamy, a bull-necked businessman who represented no city, but the bleak Black Hills of South Dakota, where men are men and steaks are three inches thick. When he described the latter, Yugoslavia's gaunt, grey Stoyan Gavrilovic, the UNO subcommittee chairman, was visibly...
Jacques Fath, a slim, blond newcomer, added a bodice of torturing wire stays to his model of dusty blue taffeta, "Argengon" (price: $650). Hermès, famed for his sport dresses, featured his low-necked "Boston." Another newcomer, Pierre Balmain, managed to be very chic and comparatively reasonable: his mauve...
Bull-Necked Males. "The creature familiar as Superman is the leader of a swarm of satellites separated from him only by a copyright. Scores of comic books feature similar characters-for example, Catman, Bullet Man, The Human Torch, Captain Midnight, Captain Marvel, Black Terror, Blue Beetle, Green Lama, Yankee Boy...
In the Russian-occupied zone, eastern Europe's sweeping Communist-sponsored land reform hit the big landowning Junker, and that stiff-necked class that had long been one of the world's worst curses stood in imminent danger of dissolution. Saxony took the lead. There the Provincial Government...