Word: necks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they had not demanded one. "What have we got?" he asked, "we have got a little over a year left," went on to explain that the next Administration might not provide a post office, and that if Warm Springers demanded hard enough, he might take Jim Farley by the neck "and squeeze a new post office...
Every year, to save their lives from cancer of the larynx, 400 people in the U. S. have their Adam's apples removed. The stump of windpipe which remains is turned over and pulled through a hole in the front of the neck, at the point where a collar button usually rests. Through this hole larynx-less patients (mostly men) do their breathing. But they cannot talk aloud, for their breath gushes up in a storm from their lungs, whistles out through their necks, and first requirement for speech is a vibrating column of air in the throat. They...
...bear that walks like a cobra has shocked the world by sinking its fangs into Finland's neck. Americans are sickened by grotesque Soviet talk of Finnish war mongering and border incidents. There is a real danger that they will be so shocked and so sickened that they will mistakenly take out their ice on the hides of Russia's defenders in this country...
Durant's erudite wife says their house in Great Neck, L. I., is a "factory." The great popularizer planned to work five years on The Life of Greece, cut it to four-and-a-half to get the book out before election year. First draft was written in what Durant calls "the butcher's book," a mighty ledger. He scattered no less than 2,500 source references (to some 200 sources) through the 671 pages of The Life of Greece. Along with these impressive grace notes are other devices, beginning with the price, calculated to put the stuff...
...Commissioned by Congress to investigate un-American activities, Dies has maneuvered himself into a one-man Supreme Court to judge what is and is not "American" under the Constitution. He has made "isms" almost as popular as sex-murders, and with the press caught by the scruff of its neck feeds it daily with red meat, mostly carrion...