Word: neck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fledgling Domestic Peace Corps, just beginning to tackle the juvenile delinquency problem, now finds the Powell problem hanging around its neck like a rather weighty albatross. Because of its affiliations with the Congressman-clergyman, the Corps has been attacked in Congress, condemned by much of the press, and defended by almost...
...another strangling-and this time it was a 19-year-old, Sophie Clark, a student in medical technology, who was found strangled with three stockings intertwined with a half slip. Next, on Dec. 29, was Secretary Patricia Bissette, 23, with three stockings and a white blouse knotted around her neck...
Fortnight ago. Seaman Recruit Joseph Wilkowski reported to sick bay at the San Diego Naval Training Center. From his symptoms-including stiff neck and a rash-the medics decided they were up against meningitis, inflammation of the protective sheathing of the spinal cord and brain. And among the many microbes that can cause meningitis, they identified the cause of Wilkowski's illness as the meningococcus...
Divorced. By Peggy Ann Garner, 31, onetime child star who grew up and out of fame: Albert Salmi, 35, blond screen and TV actor; on grounds of mental cruelty (she testified that their continuing argument over whether to live in Hollywood or New York caused her to twist her neck violently and develop a thyroid condition); after nearly seven years of marriage, one child; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...brought back any presents for his family. Cassius said no, so Reynolds told him to go out and get some. He picked out a $250 watch for his mother, a $100 watch for his father, a $100 watch for his brother. Still wearing his gold medal around his neck, Clay ate at the Waldorf-Astoria ("The steaks were $7.95." says Martin, "and Cassius always had two"), toured Greenwich Village looking for beatniks, and whooped delightedly when passers-by recognized him. Tapping a startled cabby on the shoulder, he said: "Why, I bet even you know that I'm Cassius...