Word: neck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...does not look the part. His scholarly forehead, his small, sparkling eyes, his massive and majestic beard set him apart from other 20th Century heroes. The black-rimmed eyeglass, which he carries on a thin ribbon around his neck, is a gentle anachronism. Above all, his dates seem wrong. For it was at the height of the Victorian era, when the atom appeared almost as indestructible as Britain's dominion of the waves, that Karl Heinrich Marx died...
...South Carolina, first examined his patient, he thought her trip to Charleston had been in vain. Blonde Betty Lee Woolridge was an almost classic example of the wreckage caused when a heart is crippled by rheumatic fever. At 21, Betty Lee weighed only 85 pounds; veins in her neck stood out like whipcords; her abdomen was swollen with a fluid by-product of congestive heart failure. Doctors in her home town of Canton, Ohio had told her she had only a year to live...
Eccles' head did not roll, although his neck was bruised. Magnanimously the President offered him the vice chairmanship of the seven-man board. After wrestling with his pride, Eccles took it. He could still get in plenty of licks at his enemies. While McCabe was learning the tortuous ins & outs of the job, Eccles, the old hand, would continue to be the most influential member of FRB. Independently wealthy and doggedly independent, 57-year-old Marriner Eccles would go on working at his ideas of "capitalistic democracy." A Washington career had been punctuated but by no means ended...
...Redly Great?" When Mahatma Gandhi was in London in 1931 to plead for Indian independence, a small girl started to ask for his autograph. Then she drew back shyly before the strange little dhoti-clad man with a cavernous mouth, jutting ears and scrawny neck. She looked up at her mother and asked: "Mummy, is he really great...
...jayvees learned that center Fred Richardson will definitely be out for the rest of the season with disrupted vertebrae in the neck and head as the result of a collision with two BU defensemen early last month...