Word: neckedness
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Madame la Maráchale, 67, was dignified in a straw sailor and a high-necked light tailleur. Short, chunky Madame Laval, 57, wore sari-like slacks and a beige coat. Her hair was swathed in a capacious scarf.
Beginning a new assignment in the Air Transport Command, as he finished his autobiography, Major La Farge was sure at last that he saw a new world of reality ahead for him. He was sure he had said goodbye forever to the un-Grotonian Groton Boy who had long been...
The Coach. At sea, during an air operation, Halsey does not exercise detailed, tactical control of the fleet: that is the responsibility of the top carrier admiral (in this case, McCain). But Halsey wears the Navy's gold wings above the left breast pocket of his open-necked, tieless...
No doubt the defeated faction should have slipped quietly away. For, like people, governments wish that former friends, whom for one reason or another they have injured, would drop away tactfully. But the London Poles had always been stiff-necked. Perhaps it was political despair, perhaps it was the habit...
Edouard Daladier, barrel-chested, bull-necked Munich era Premier of France, wrote from internment in Germany that he was well.