Word: necks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...furious reaction. In Ulster's recently formed assembly, which is still being boycotted by Roman Catholic parties, the mood among Protestants was grim. "We want to see the men responsible for this evil deed exterminated," said one. "I don't care whether they are hanged by the neck, judicially executed or shot against the wall." Catholics were also outraged. "I rise not simply in anger but also sick to the stomach at this act of barbaric cruelty," said Oliver Napier, the Catholic leader of the moderate Alliance Party...
...opening of the Dyansen show, Erté was dressed in a black-leather dinner jacket with cobraskin lapels. Around his neck he wore his mother's gold lorgnette and a heavy gold watch chain that had belonged to his grandfather, an admiral like his father. He stood beside his old toreador outfit, which was on display, his pale blue eyes alight with reminiscences of his grand entrance at the 1926 ball. He remarked proudly that he could still fit into the costume, flower-lined cape and all. Clearly, Erté would like nothing better in his 90th year than...
...vanished in a puff of smoke. In his place sat a red stuffed elephant with a green bow tied around his neck. The hippie grinned...
...race day, he is resting in the team motor home, driving shoes off, blue driving suit unzipped, the neck of his white Nomex long Johns showing. He is thin through the hips, and thinner through the shoulders than when he played the arrogant cowboy stud Hud in an undershirt. He has no belly, although he drinks several cans of Budweiser a day (he has not drunk hard liquor since a boozy period at the beginning of the '70s when he was shooting Sometimes a Great Notion). A daily sauna and a three-mile run seem to take care...
With a recently cut basket her around her neck, Smith exclaimed. "It felt good to beat a team that well-coached so early in the season...