Word: neckedness
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>The bull-necked southern samurai Saigo, whose revolt in 1866 against the Shogun unified the Japanese clans under the Emperor for the first time in centuries. He later revolted against his Emperor and died the death of an ancient Roman.
When a child is accepted by the school, his parents legally bind themselves not to withdraw him before his 16th birthday. Books and games are provided free, but pupils must buy their own school uniforms. Boys wear grey suits and navy blue caps ringed with the green & red school colors...
> Massive, thick-necked, aged (80) Lieut. Governor Walter S. Goodland (a Republican whom reporters call "Woof Woof" because he looks and growls like a St. Bernard) might get the job. He was re-elected last month, had himself sworn in for his new term by his nephew one hour and...
Soft-voiced, sentimental Manuel Avila Camacho, the man of harmony, sat between doddering Ezequiel Chávez and post-reactionary González Martinez. At the same table were ex-Fascist José Vasconcelos, onetime Presidents Pascual Ortiz Rubio (his qualifications for entry: love poems scribbled in youth) and bull...
To Chicago for four days and then to Manhattan for six went thousands of disciplined Salvationists to attend the Army's Central and Eastern Territorial Congresses and see their worldwide leader. The men were in high, stiff-necked uniforms, the lassies in black-&-red poke bonnets, long-skirted uniform...