Word: neckedness
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New York City may be sound to the core, but it is rotten around the edges. From Red Hook to Hell's Kitchen in the muttering jungle of New York's 771-mile waterfront, bollard-necked hoodlums have long kept things regular with gun, knife, cargo hook and...
In 1947, on the retirement of Dean Virginia Gildersleeve, Millicent Mclntosh was appointed dean of Barnard. She inherited a heads-up academic program which seemed stiff-necked to some, but which struck a sound middle ground between progressive and traditional methods. Mrs. Mclntosh has made few changes, emphasizes that the...
To end the impudence, the cardinal-archbishop ordered that henceforth marrying couples must promise that no one taking part in the wedding would wear "a low-necked dress, short dress, or sleeveless dress." If any did, "the priest in charge will suspend the ceremony." Cuba's young women, 95...
Stern, stiff-necked Stepfather Fontaine ruled the household pretty much as though it were a department in his store. He imposed all manner of hard rules, including a strict lights-out at 8:15. Livvie had to study in bed, with a flashlight underneath her blanket.
Helsinki's non-Communist press last week welcomed back "the Paavo Nurmi of Finnish politics." Red newspapers damned the release of Tanner (whom they called "worse than Laval and Quisling"), and threatened "dire consequences." With a cautious eye on the Kremlin, bull-necked Premier Karl August Fagerholm, Tanner'...