Word: neck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since last July when Pole-Vault Champion Brian Sternberg, 20, lost control on a trampoline and plunged 14 ft. to a broken neck and complete body paralysis, he has never given up hope of regaining muscle-control. Last week, with partial arm movement restored, he traveled from Seattle's University Hospital to San Francisco to see his first track meet since the accident. "I don't know whether it's going to be fun or punishment," he told reporters. And the news he would go home for good in March also prompted mixed emotions. "I promised myself...
When the bus arrived, Dallas County Sheriff Jim Clark leaped aboard, armed with a billy and an electric cattle prod. He jammed the billy in Merritt's belly, and he applied the prod to the photographer's neck. With the aid of a deputy, he threw Merritt off the bus, there prodded him some more as he lay on the ground. All this was caught on film by Merritt's unmolested colleague, Cameraman Ed Jones of the Birmingham News. Merritt's equipment-$800 worth-was smashed with such enthusiasm that the six Negro pupils, who stayed...
...boldly inquired after her vital statistics. The No. 1 star of this or any other Olympics, Speed Skater Skoblikova picked up her fourth gold medal of the games last week in the women's 3,000 meters and posed gaily for photographers with all four strung around her neck...
Impact. The law has long recognized claims for emotional disturbances resulting from physical injury, even though there was no demonstrable link between the physical and mental harm. Newby claimed a whiplash injury, and although the connection between his aching neck and his psychosis was exceedingly faint, his case came within the old rule of negligence law, which allowed recovery for emotional injury only if there had been some physical impact...
...Rick Kaminsky, and Kaminsky is a more mortal. Everything has been used against Princeton's amazing Number 42: a straight zone, a straight man-to-man, double-teaming, triple-teaming, a box and one, a box and two. But Bradley could murder you with an anaconda wrapped around his neck...