Word: neck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London, Princess Margaret was confined to the palace with "an attack of acute fibrositis"-a crick in the neck...
...only two blocks from where he had narrowly missed death 25 years ago, when Fascist police stood him against a wall to be executed; he escaped when the executioner lost his nerve.) Two bullets had pierced Togliatti's right lung, a third had struck him in the neck. He was able to mumble a question: he asked if his briefcase was safe. It was. He was taken to the Policlinico, Rome's largest hospital and the only one not affected by a slowdown strike of doctors, nurses and attendants which had begun that morning as a protest against...
...Dodgers and Giants were neck & neck in fourth place when Durocher and Shotton took over their new jobs last week. Whether either of them could now win a pennant would be one test of the big change. A more immediate test, and more crucial to the club owners, was whether the Giant and Dodger fans who had been staying away from their ball parks most of the season would now throng back...
...Ambulance Trick. Editor Blumenfeld, 43, has been working for Acme since its founding 25 years ago. He now bosses 250 employees and has 125 regular U.S. clients and a European picture network. Acme, although smaller than A.P., is neck & neck with I.N.P. Like every other picture editor, Blumenfeld has tried many a trick to score a beat. He thinks his best was at the 1928 Gene Tunney-Tom Heeney heavyweight fight at Yankee Stadium. Dressed in a white intern's coat, Blumenfeld waited outside the stadium gate in an ambulance...
...your head, and don't be ashamed to show the world that you are shaped as a woman ought to be." But all her life she remained ashamed, awkward and uncontrollably shy. Now she was 41, "a big colourless woman in a brown skirt and a high-necked blue sweater. The shoulders were square, the neck long and firm, the legs straight and big, like pillars...