Word: neckless
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...another fantasy retirement. Callaway sold his vineyard at a handsome profit to Hiram Walker & Sons, then bought a tiny golf-club company that made classic hickory-shafted wedges and putters. Under his tutelage, sales soon boomed. That was merely the tee-off. After introducing a popular line of neckless irons, he hit upon the idea of Big Bertha. Callaway replaced an existing graphite club head with a hollow stainless-steel design weighted most heavily around the edges. "Perimeter weighting" gave Bertha a sweet spot like that of an oversize tennis racquet. Since hollow clubs already on the market were cracking...
...could order, 'Cut off his head.' " In Cincinnati, a society reporter named Marion Devereux had incalculable influence over everything but her own prose style. A woman's gown was her "toilette"; on several occasions she referred to an enemy's appearance in a "lovely bead neckless"; bachelors were referred to as "young celibrates...
SPIRO AGNEW. He "has a neckless, lidded flow to him, with wrap-around hair, a tubular perfection to his suits or golf outfits, quiet, burbling oratory. Subaquatic. He was almost out of sight by campaign's end; but a good sonar system could hear him burrowing ahead, on course...
...Podenas," one of the funniest heads, stretches to a peak in a tuft of hair. A foldable top lip falls to a point, the mountainous nose above and a wing collar binding neckless jowls threaten to envelop the pyramidal brain. Mouths snarl from monstrous faces, others just venture a gawky grin. Yet Daumier models even the most hideous mask with humor...
...flapping jowls are unpleasant in the pictures, and even more horrifying when seen live. But when the fleshy head is connected to the rest of Nixon's body, the result is a grotesque caricature. Nixon is thin, almost frail. His head emerges from neckless, hunched shoulders; he looks like a younger Ed Sullivan. His feet dangle like a marionette's encased in tiny black shoes. His arms are held close to his side, except when they balloon out in stilted Victory gestures...