Word: neck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...refrigerator and bar and an oyster-white rug, often littered with phonograph records or clothes. She liked to be interviewed in bed in the late afternoon and sometimes leaped from the covers in a transparent nightgown to admire herself in the mirror. Sometimes, at parties, she raised her dress neck high, to show that she had a compact little body and a magnificent overall...
...Wright Field started working on the stunt four years ago. A plane dangling a nylon rope and a hook on the end of a long pole snatched 50-lb. dummies off the ground. Then a sheep was tried. The first one was hauled into the plane with its neck broken. The process was gentled until experimenters were finally ready to try the trick on a man. Lieut. Alex Doster volunteered...
...When his feet get wet, it is bad. When his knees get wet. it is serious. When his thighs get wet, it is dangerous. When his belt gets wet, Paris begins to be flooded. In 1910 André was nearly drowned: the water was up to his neck...
Said Private Kinman to the patient, as he opened his jackknife: "I don't like to do this, but it is the only way you are going to live." He made a vertical incision in the exact middle of the wounded man's neck stopped the blood as well as he could,' made an up & down cut in the windpipe, which he wedged open with the top of a fountain pen. "Now," he said, "keep that pen in your windpipe and you'll be O.K. You can't breathe through your nose or mouth...
...minutes the rifleman felt better. He stood up, fingering the tip of the fountain pen. A passing tank carried him to the battalion aid station. There the surgeon stared at the queer arrangement in his neck and sent him on. Next stop was the clearing station, where Captain David Dunn of Westminster, Md. removed the pen top, put in a regular tracheotomy tube (which the air passes through, not around, as in the case of the makeshift wedge...