Word: neck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bessie Goldberg, 62, wife of a real estate man, lay on the living-room floor of her Dutch-colonial home in Belmont, a well-to-do Boston suburb. Around her neck was a nylon stocking that had been stripped from her left leg. She was dead. Headlined the Boston Herald: HOUSEWIFE TENTH STRANGLE VICTIM...
...strangling spree began last June, when Seamstress Anna Slesers, 55, was found in her kitchen, a blue bathrobe belt wrapped tight around her throat. Two weeks later, greying Physiotherapist Nina Nichols, 68, was found on her bedroom floor, two knotted stockings around her neck. Two days later, it was Helen Blake, 65, a practical nurse, found strangled by two knotted stockings entwined with a brassiere. Eight days more, and Margaret Davis, 60, was discovered manually strangled in a cheap hotel room. On Aug. 21, Ida Irga, 75, was throttled with a pillowcase; her body was found on her living-room...
Picked by many to finish on top, the Canadiens were plagued by injuries to goalie Jacques Plante, defensemen Tom Johnson and Lou Fontinato (who is in hospital with a broken neck), and forwards Bernard "Boom Boom" Geoffrion, Dickie Moore, and Gilles Tremblay. Rookie defenseman Terry Harper and newly acquired left-winger Bill McCreary will prove valuable to the club in the coming Stanley Cup playoffs...
...Beta Kappa Society of Radcliffe College has announced the election of eight juniors: Kate L. Bernstein, of Moors Hall and Great Neck, N.Y., Biology; Lorella M. Jones, of Whitman Hall and Pittsburgh, Pa., Mathematics; Lydia K. Lake, of Barnard Hall and New Canaan, Conn., Classics; Joan E. Lusk, of Saville House and Oradell, N.J., Chemistry; L. Emilie Schrader, of Coggeshall House and St. Paul, Minn., Social Studies; Gail E. Thain, of Whitman Hall and Evanston, III., History and Literature; Ann D. Watson, of Moors Hall and Mentham, N.J., English; and Emily Zack, of Eliot Hall and New York City, History...
...doesn't hang diamonds 'round my neck...