Word: necks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still a horse race for second and third spots in the standings, with Eliot (5-2), Dunster (4-2-1), Quincy (4-3), Winthrop (4-3), and Kirkland (4-3) neck-and neck with one game to go. Dudley (2-5), Adams (1-7), and Lowell (0-8) occupy the cellar of the House league...
...does the rabbit go over the mountain?" the guide asks. "Why is a giraffe's neck so long?" "Why is a lion's head so big?" (Answers: "Because the mountain won't go over the rabbit." "So he can reach the ground to eat the grass." "So he can't stick it between the bars of his cage.") For each wrong reply, the guide gets to whack the hunter on the rump with a willow branch. Smart Westerners can always retaliate with a few Red riddles of their own. One that is currently bouncing around...
...trapped man cries angrily as he charges up the palisades of sand that rise on all sides; they collapse and almost bury him. Undaunted, he climbs the rope that lowers supplies into the pit; when the rope is released, he drops 30 feet and almost breaks his neck. Frustrated on all sides, he turns upon the woman his rage to live. He possesses her, unaware at first that in grappling with the woman he is also grappling with the reality she represents: the appalling predicament...
...ideas were simple and devastating: 1) flame-throwing denunciation of Goldwater and his record toward the common man which reduces the Republican candidate to a small pile of white ash; 2) hanging the Goldwater albatross around Volpe's neck and nailing it to his jugular; 3) recalling the memory of President Kennedy and Volpe's criticism of him; 4)criticizing Volpe's sales tax as being against the common man; 5) appealing to the voter's Joyalty to the Party of the Poor Man. "We will not betray you." The Democrats in Massachusetts outnumber the state's 600,000 Republicans...
...heaven above. By your sword you shall live, And your brother you shall serve. But as you grow restive, You shall throw off his yoke from your neck...