Word: neck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sleek, young officer, at times almost handsome. His expression comes alive with a kind of haunted fury. His black eyes widen. His neck stretches. His head begins to twitch in spasmodic jerks. He looks like a hunted animal. It is a spasm. As it passes, he leans back against the dock and only the wariness in his eyes remains...
Curare does not act on the big nerve centers. It acts by breaking the connection between the nerve ends and the muscles they serve. First muscles affected are those of the head and neck; then the limbs are paralyzed, then the abdominal muscles, last of all the diaphragm and between-rib muscles which do the work of breathing. (The danger of the drug is that just a little more than enough to relax the abdominal muscles may paralyze breathing-therefore only expert anesthetists should use it.) Besides relaxing skeletal muscles, curare contracts the gut, making it easy to handle...
...about a diamond ring he wore on his left hand. If he got killed, it should go back to his family. It had been his meal ticket on critical fiscal occasions. McGonegal made a small leather pouch, sewed the ring in it and hung it around his neck against his dog tags. Then he felt better...
...Doctor,' said the flutist, 'the teeth of my present bridge are too long and they have nasty spaces . . . between them. I have no support for the mouthpiece . . . and the air flows right out between the necks of the teeth. Now, doctor, can you close up these spaces . . . and grind out some sort of shelf . . . to accommodate the neck of the flute...
Died. Yvette Guilbert, 79, famed, tawny-haired pioneer diseuse; in Aix-en-Provence, France. The original of a Toulouse-Lautrec watercolor, her artistry was one of the risqué features of Paris of the '90s. In low neck and long black gloves she ranged from café songs to medieval ballads. She was received in England by Composer Sir Arthur Sullivan at Edward VII's request; in 1932 was dubbed a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor...