Word: neck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meningitis (symptoms: stiff neck, headache, delirium, partial deafness and blindness, a rash) hits hardest in concentrations of young men, the Army is on the watch. At a California ordnance depot, three soldiers died almost before their trouble could be diagnosed. The doctors were waiting for the next 17 cases with sulfadiazine, saved them all. They made throat cultures of men in the barracks involved, dosed all who harbored the bacteria. Said a medical officer: "If you catch it early, it's a bad cold...
Last week, as their series approached the finish, the teams were neck & neck, eleven victories apiece. The eventual winner will play the St. Petersburg High School girls' team-an annual event that draws some 3,000 spectators...
Before the war, Timken-Detroit, the only U.S. company making high-traction gears for all-wheel-drive trucks, had three machines, each turning out twelve pinions an hour - enough for one six-wheeler. As military trucking increased, Timken-Detroit engineers could foresee the bottle neck. They decided to try the impossible - to forge gears to the unheard-of tolerance (for forging...
...President: "He seemed to be gay, sure of himself, a bit festive at times, informative, indeed illuminating. . . . He has grown notably heavier since he came to the White House. . . . His growth has not been in paunch. It has been above his navel. His shoulders have widened. His neck and jowls have filled out. His head has taken a new form. . . . He is a vital person...
Ashore, the Commandos began the long, exhausting climb to the mountain top, beyond which lay the bridge they must destroy. Soon their cheeks were "streaked to the neck with charcoaled sweat, and the neck raw from chafing collar . . . the nostrils sore from running mucus. . . . There was pain in . . . the stooped shoulders straining downwards away from the pack . . . in the bent spine, in the small of the back. . . . Pain in the strung thighs, red pain in the chafed buttocks . . . in the gooseflesh skin of the thigh where a holster, or a knife in ihe trouser pocket, rubbed with the polish...