Word: neck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leaned back in the deep sofa, his heavy head perched squarely on his chunky body, Mr. King seemed to have no neck at all. As he talked, his only motions were slight oratorical gestures with the hands, an occasional smoothing of his wispy grey hair. Once in a while he plucked his key ring from his pocket and absently swung his keys...
...130th Station Hospital in Heidelberg (a former German cavalry barracks), General George Smith Patton Jr. was fighting for his life. His neck had been broken in an auto accident when he was on his way to shoot pheasants. He fought with the same tenacity with which he had fought his enemies. He was mending so well that medics took off the elaborate traction apparatus and put their 60-year-old patient in a plaster cast. There was talk of flying him home. Then a respiratory infection set in. Last week-twelve days after his accident-George Patton died...
When Mrs. Little lost her ring down the bathtub drain, Mr. Little suggested that they lower Stuart into the drain on a string. Soon Stuart came up with the ring around his neck. "How was it down there?" asked Mr. Little, who was always curious about places he had never been to. "It was all right," said Stuart...
General George S. Patton Jr. sat up in bed for the first time since his neck-breaking auto crash, faced an uncertain future with good humor and good appetite. He moved his shoulders, still could not move his hands or legs...
Shortly after the judge "entered in shriveled and eccentric majesty," Amery, to everyone's surprise, pleaded guilty to the treason charge. "In effect the young man was saying 'I insist on being hanged by the neck in three weeks' time.' A murmur ran through the court which was expostulatory, which' was horrified, which was tinged with self-pity, for this was suicide. ... It was quite clear that he was . . . congratulating himself on having at last, at the end of his muddled and frustrated existence, achieved an act crystal line in its clarity. . . ." That kind...