Word: neck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manila street a Jap soldier held a 15-year-old girl's head up by pulling at her hair, hacked at her neck with a sword as she prayed for mercy...
...through the death-soaked shambles of the broken city, where advances were measured by paving stones and victories by buildings. Saburov managed to fall in love with an equally heroic young nurse and to strangle a Nazi spy with one hand while buried up to his neck in the rubble of a brick wall. But Days and Nights is neither a love story nor a routine bang-bang adventure yarn. Its high emotional charge is due to Author Simonov's sensitive observation of the people who fought in Stalingrad's streets. Russians have already bought 400,000 copies...
...Neck. In Fruita, Colo., an illustrative marvel took place. A farmer chopped off the head of a rooster named Mike. He missed Mike's jugular vein and a lump of tissue at the top of his neck that controlled Mike's motor impulses...
...they do every autumn, the hardy fishermen of little West Pubnico last week climbed into their boats and chugged away to the Bay of Fundy to reap a harvest of scallops. Behind them, on a mile-wide neck of land in the quiet Acadian country of Nova Scotia, they left one of the most remarkable villages in North America...
...Famed Piper Aircraft Corp. was neck & neck with Taylorcraft. Shrewd, quick-moving President William Thomas Piper, whose planes hedge-hopped up & down the front lines during the war, is making 300 planes a month in his Lock Haven, Pa. plant, hopes to edge his output up to 600 planes a month by January. While most of his competitors concentrated on one plane, he had shrewdly put two models into production, the Piper Cub Special ($2,010) and the three-place Piper Cub Super Cruiser...