Word: neckedness
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The railroad stations in every major U.S. city last week were jampacked with Americans on the go. People stood three deep at the hurry-up depot lunch counters, waited vainly for taxicabs, lugged their own heavy baggage because there weren't enough redcaps. Men in open-necked sport shirts...
He has his detractors. Mexico City's stiff-necked, nationalist Old Guard, who do not or will not see the satire in his act, loathe him as the leader of "the barbarian invasion from the North." Nevertheless, Tin Tan today is not only the wonder boy of the Folies...
¶ The capture, trial and execution of a traitor: wry, long-necked, the flaps of his cap like the ears of an animal, he looks simpleminded, hardly aware of what is happening to him.
The thick-necked, barbaric, half-naked Prime Minister of Siam himself met her at the ship - but only to tell her that she was most unwelcome, that no arrange ments had been made for her care. Anna gritted her teeth, stayed on.
Where was the Luftwaffe? One explanation of its infrequent sorties was that Field Marshal Hugo Sperrle, bull-necked veteran of Spain's ill-famed Condor Legion, was saving his strength, to use it in close support of Rommel's army when his counterattack finally got under way.