Word: scruff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...took a strongly pro-Wilson stand. The Prime Minister felt so confident that he was able to brag to a May Day rally: "I know what is going on. I am going on. Your government is going on!" Wilson thereupon confided that he intended "taking this country by the scruff of the neck" and forcing it to do what was needed to be done, regardless of the consequences to the Labor Party...
...abdicated King Edward VIII in 1937 were "the most flagrant act of discrimination in the whole history of our dynasty," Thomas fumed, arguing that she ought to be recognized as the "consort of a royal prince" and referred to as "Her Royal Highness" instead of having to scruff along as "Her Grace...
...state of opera everywhere, there is very little else that Rudolph Bing has got wrong. For 16 years he has stood in the dead center of a musical vortex and managed to conduct both himself and opera with admirable skill. Dragging opera by the scruff of the neck into modern times, demanding improvements in production techniques and performance quality, Bing has helped the art to achieve the Wagnerian ideal of Gesamtkunstwerk, the amalgamation of drama, singing, acting and dancing into total theater...
...Anany Egorovich bit his lower lip. He did not know what to do. Eight years ago he would have taken these women by the scruff of their necks and thrown them into the fields...
Conductor Mravinsky favors brisk, martial tempos, even in romantic music, and audiences not accustomed to the beat often find it unsettling. In the Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5, Mravinsky whips through the tragic last movement at such a pace that to one critic he seemed to seize it "by the scruff of its neck with the brisk air of an English nanny determined to have no scenes in the nursery." Even so, the Leningrad's carefully detailed exposition of the Symphony moved a crowd in Washington's Constitution Hall to a standing ovation last week; its performance of Shostakovich...