Word: necks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real good. Of course he thought up the dances himself. The girls were supposed to work in a grubby club. They do a strip number and are pretty good lookers, if you like that sort of thing, you know, if you got a good seat and crane your neck right...
Only Arthur Gartland among the incumbents has stuck out his neck in favor of innovation. He has voted for the Roxbury site for Boston English, he has voted to recognize the problem of de facto segregation, he has voted to set immediate plans in motion for complying with the state Racial Imbalance Bill. He is joined on these issues by his four fellow candidates of the Citizens for Boston Schools: Melvin King, Velia Dicesare, John F. X. Gaquin, and George H. Parker, King, a Negro and a Roxbury social worker, would at long last give ghetto residents a voice...
This political climate was responsible, Carter explained, for the tone of J. P. Coleman's campaign for the governorship in 1964. Coleman, recently appointed justice for the U. S. Fifth Circuit Court, had "stuck his neck out for Kennedy in 1960," Carter said, and "got it chopped...
...while campaigning for governor, Coleman made an ideological about face, trying "to retrieve part of his neck," but was defeated the following year...
...drama were taxidermy, Harry Secombe could scarcely be faulted. Perhaps Madame Tussaud's should put in a bid for him at the end of the run. His Mr. Pickwick is a no-neck John Bull with a jellybelly. He is full of music-hall antics that date, but not back to the 19th century. His fellow Pickwickians are animated period costumes equally devoid of personality...