Word: necks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...story is just getting started when a minor character tells Charlie, 13, the narrator: "Your father's the most obnoxious man I've ever met. He is the worst kind of pain in the neck-a know-it-all who's sometimes right." This is accurate and fair warning. Allie Fox is a ranter and raver, a Maine-born Yankee of bullying and slightly crazed ingenuity. To accompany him on a shopping trip is to be lectured on U.S. civilization and its discontents. He tells everyone who will listen that the end is near. Reports Charlie...
...captain elsewhere describes a suspiciously similar rescue by another young woman in Central Europe. But historians have found that where it is possible to double-check Smith's facts, the old adventurer comes off remarkably well. Perhaps the drawings showing Pocahontas throwing herself across Smith's neck are roughly accurate. The same cannot be said of John Trumbull's famous group portrait, Signing of the Declaration of Independence. Most members of the Continental Congress signed the documents not on July 4, 1776, but on Aug. 2; furthermore, the ceremony did not play to a full house...
...really bad headache for three or four days. I was really stiff, and my neck hurt," Sands said yesterday. "I couldn't understand it, but then a friend I spend a lot of time with in L.A. (Sands' home) called me and told me she had it. I went to an M.D. here and he said without a doubt...
During the hour-long ride to Rockport. DiPietro sat with Hussain in the backseat of the car. She said that he kept a strong grip on her the entire time, while he testified that she sat quietly in his lap and at one time even kissed his neck...
...attacks on Volcker both by the Administration and in Congress had reached their shrillest pitch yet. Said Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker of Tennessee in graphically blunt terms: "It is time for the Fed to give us a little air, to get its foot off the nation's neck and give the economy an opportunity to recover...