Word: scruff
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...Bolles played the Good Samaritan, bringing his launch alongside the Rabbitt shell to pick Whitnack out of the water by the scruff of his neck and drop him back dripping into the bow seat...
Barbers who are restrained by professional ethics from shaving their customers with anything more than polite firmness would turn green with envy at the forthright way Mexican goat-shearers shear goats. A goat is taken, brusquely by the scruff of its neck and thrown to the ground. The shearer holds it down with his knee while he clips its belly. Patient old goats who have outgrown their tick-lishness lie still; young goats squirm. The goat's four feet have meanwhile been bunched together and tied. The shearer clips as much of its back as he can reach, flops...
Picnickers in the woods around Washington are apt to have the tick jump on their necks and hide in the hair of the scruff. Public health bulletins to local papers advised that the insects be picked off the neck very carefully, without crushing. Children coming in from play in gardens or woods should be gone over. So should dogs, cats and other pets in whose fur the tick might find an intermediate spring board...
...from the players, looking suddenly tired. In that tense moment a news cameraman popped up at the footlights, exploded a flashlight directly in the Maestro's face. Toscanini fled to the wings. Out leaped Bruno Zirato, the Philharmonic's assistant manager, to seize the photographer by the scruff, hustle him out to the lobby where detectives and doormen de prived him of his camera and the plate he had used...
...Earl of Emsworth, whose brother. Hon. Galahad Threepwood, has written and suppressed a book of racy reminiscences which Lord Tilbury yearns to publish, and whose Empress has lately been nobbled (kidnapped) and is by way of being nobbled again. Which is why Lord Tilbury is seized by his beefy scruff and thrust into a dark and dirty shed. And why young Monty Bodkin, his discharged subeditor, regains employment with His Lordship. And why, since the ms. of the racy reminiscences is the other jewel of the plot, the Empress ultimately makes a meal of said ms. and, one complication having...