Word: necks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late Sir H. Rider Haggard, in his book, Mr. Meeson's Will, published about 1888, tells of a dying testator, shipwrecked on a South Pacific isle, who was obliged to have his last will and testament tattooed on the back of the neck and shoulders of a young lady companion. When she was rescued and returned to England, the will was probated but could not be filed...
...sleep in Theodore Bilbo's old fourposter in the mansion back in 1957. Worse than that, he had gone on statewide TV in the fall of 1960 to support Kennedy for President. Said Johnson from every stump: "Coleman can't get the Kennedy albatross from around his neck.' Johnson insisted with pride and fervor that he had "stood up for Mississippi" at Ole Miss, so wasn't it about time Mississippi stood up for him? For comic relief, he threw in a surefire laugh-getter: "You know what the N.A.A.C.P. stands for: Niggers, alligators apes, coons...
...mortem examination on a baby is the only man who sees the glassy membrane. If the baby pulls through his first three or four days-usually aided by extra oxygen in his Isolette, and sometimes by a forced-breathing tube pushed down his windpipe through a cut in the neck-the membrane presumably disappears. Along with it go the respiratory difficulties. A baby who survives this crisis usually suffers no permanent damage, and develops as well as any other preemie...
Once the noose is unobtrusively slipped about his neck, reel out and let him run. A slight tug at various points during the romance can be used as a check, but if you tug too often, he will catch on and cut loose...
Easy to break a man's neck...