Word: necking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Foreign Ministry was up to "the fifth serious warning.") In a wave of synthetic fury unmatched since Korean war days, millions of Chinese-205 million by Peking's count-docilely turned out to demonstrate against "U.S. armed provocations." Describing U.S. military bases abroad as "a noose around the neck of American imperialism," moonfaced Chairman Mao Tse-tung vaingloriously declared: "Nobody but the Americans themselves made these nooses, put them around their own necks and handed one end of the rope to the Chinese people...
Meeting baseball writers as a group for the first time since his paralyzing auto accident last January, Dodger Catcher Roy Campanella spoke with undiminished spirit through a microphone suspended from his neck brace. Over the previous weekend, he had been home for the first time with his wife and children, and it was "the best medicine I've had." At Manhattan's N.Y.U.-Bellevue Medical Center, his daily routine includes lifting 17-lb. sandbags, breathing oxygen to help his respiration and speech. "I can feed myself," he boasted, "and that's a big thing. You hate...
...dollar a day, and you begin to see him without too much imagination; a dollar a day and you have bought your way into the conspiracy against him. But then, you wouldn't know about that. In your Bermuda shorts and crew-neck sweater, your sweat socks and white tennis shoes and Jones Beach...
...against barbed wire. Ducking into a bunker, we watched the second landing barge glide by like a sea monster. The third landing craft, carrying a group of U.S. military assistance advisory personnel, tore its bottom on an underwater barricade, and the U.S. officers, their gear lost, slogged ashore through neck-deep water...
...startling results: spayed females went into heat again, and normal males became infertile or impotent. The researchers forgot to mention how much free hormone was left in the feed. But there was another bogy: in an alternate method, hormone pellets are implanted in the steer's ear or neck for gradual absorption. From the neck, unabsorbed pellets might slip into an edible cut and thence into an unsuspecting customer...