Word: necks
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Letterman's outside interests mostly involve sports. He jogs and swims (more of the latter since he injured his neck in a car accident two years ago), plays basketball and went to the All-Star baseball game in July. His No. 1 passion is auto racing. Letterman keeps a collection of foreign sports cars in an airplane hangar in Santa Monica, pores over British racing magazines and takes a different friend each year to the Indianapolis 500, part of his campaign to show that the sport is "more than cowboys in cars going as fast as they can." Racing...
...stop reading there. ". . . not a very big one. It had probably just been crawling around looking for shade when it ran into the pigs. They were having a fine tug-of-war with it, and its rattling days were over. The sow had it by the neck, and the shoat had the tail. 'You pigs git,' Augustus said, kicking the shoat. 'Head on down to the creek if you want to eat that snake.' It was the porch he begrudged them, not the snake...
...pedestrians and cars move slowly between customs posts set up at both ends. "We built this city," says Ivan, pointing back to Narva as he and his wife make their way to the Russian side, where bread and milk are cheaper. "Now they are tightening the noose around our neck to make us leave...
...There's something paradoxical about hats, which we are told to wear when it is very cold and when it is very cold and when it is very hot. A proper summer hat keeps the sun off your head, face and neck...
...gives scandal, it would be better to have a great millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths...