Word: necks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play a twelve string guitar," he said, though I usually play a six string. The thing is with twelve, the neck is not much wider, but with more strings you have to use picks." As to steel strings, "you can't really use anything else. Nylon or gut just won't talk back to you the way you'll want it to. The twang just isn't there. For Blues. You can't make it dirty...
...slipped into the kitchen with her camera to get a picture. She called to Sallee. There was no answer. She turned on her flashlight. Somehow, as he had moved his feet on the littered floor, Principal Sallee had slipped; the noose had worked up from his armpits to his neck and he was dead of strangulation...
...vagrancy," said Judge Doyle. "You came into this town to cause racial disorder. You and others like you are responsible for any blood that may be shed. I only wish we had enough policemen to take you by the seat of your britches and the nape of your neck and throw you outside the city limits." At week's end Kasper, in the county jail on charges of incitement to riot, and unable to raise $2,500 bond, was confronted by new testimony, relayed by the FBI, linking him to the dynamite bombing of the Hattie Cotton school...
...Preservator. Why had Orval Faubus created the crisis? For one thing, Faubus recently began talking about running for a third term in a state that traditionally frowns on three terms for a governor. He needed a dramatic issue, and he needed the red-neck votes of segregationist eastern Arkansas. Beyond that, there were indications that Faubus was being used by segregationist politicians in the South. From Georgia's raucous Governor Marvin Griffin, who spoke at a Little Rock dinner last month, came loud praise for the Arkansas "preservator of the peace."- At almost the very moment that Griffin used...
...Heavyweight Boxing Champion Joe Louis, made a conspicuous show of himself in the courtroom. During the trial John Cheasty noted a recurrent Hoffa action. Jimmy, he said, would wait till the jury's eyes were turned from him, then raise a hand as if to rub his neck. Cheasty saw what Hoffa wanted him to see: a Hoffa thumb zipping across the throat in an unmistakable gesture of a knife slit. Translation: Hoffa's description of what could happen to Cheasty...