Word: necks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fewer admirals and generals decked out in their panoply of braid and brass (from neck to navel), harassing a rabbitlike Congress for more billions for this and more billions for something else, and a few more "Engine Charlies," the country would be a damned sight better...
...Karachi last week U.S. Vice President Nixon bluntly warned that any country that takes Soviet economic aid on the supposition that it is without strings is likely to wind up with "a rope tied around its neck." But he went on to declare that U.S. aid to such countries might help them maintain their independence of Russia. A Pakistani official translated it this way to New York Times Correspondent Abe Rosenthal: "Mr. Nixon says Soviet aid will make you a satellite. Then he says we will keep on giving you money if you take aid from the Russians...
Just three weeks and one day after he entered Walter Reed Hospital, Dwight Eisenhower once again stepped back onto solid, ground-level pavement. His face and neck were noticeably thin; at 163 Ibs., he had gained back just one of the seven pounds he lost after his ileitis operation. His brown summer-weight suit now fitted a little loosely, his West Point-squared shoulders looked lean. With Mamie on his arm to lend balance, the President carefully took the five steps down from the hospital exit, mustered up one of his fine smiles and a wave for the battery...
...Woman in Love); EmArcy displays the modern phrasings of Helen Merrill; Storyville has uncovered a sweet-husky voice on Introducing Milli Vernon; Liberty's Lonely Girl exploits its success with Julie London, a talented miss who spends most of the record breathing down the listener's neck. As for the majors, they are currently raiding Europe: RCA Victor backs the susurrant, suave and seductive tones of an Italian, Katyna Ranieri, in Love in Three Languages, while Columbia has been pushing Paris' Juliette Greco, whose contralto voice sounds alarmingly like a tenor...
...division's chief engineer by 1946, three years later developed the industry's first V-8 high-compression engine that kicked off the horsepower race. He moved to Chevy at a time when Ford was coming up fast. In 1954, when Ford and Chevy were neck and neck for the No. 1 spot for the first time in nearly a decade, Cole was completing a 150-h.p. engine to replace Chevy's traditional six-cylinder engine. On 1955's models, the new engines went a long way toward helping Chevy win back a substantial lead...