Word: neck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negroes pulled an 18-ft. length of manila rope from the car and looped it in a single strand around Resnick's neck. The four took positions next to the doomed man-two on each side-and yanked the rope hard in opposite directions. The rope snapped, and Resnick fell backward to the ground. "Let me show you how to do it," he muttered. He tied the rope together in a neat knot, doubled it, and handed it to one of the young men. "Do a good job." he said, dropping to his knees...
...chief Mama Tia explains, South Embalmo has no males in its population. Idyllic problem-solving days pass, until Hurl learns that Noose Publications is planning a feature on the Corps and its work on the island. To impress Noose with the Corps and to save his official neck, Hurl tries to persuade the islanders to build a bridge. And so it goes, a series of ingenious ideas not executed very well...
Monkeys carry the virus without showing any ill effects. But in a case described by Physician Love and Veterinarian Jungherr. a 24-year-old lab worker came down with a bewildering variety of symptoms after going to work as a monkey handler, developed a polio-like stiffness of the neck and died. The autopsy showed that monkey virus B had spread through his lungs, heart, spinal cord and brain...
...wakes up on a winter morning, regards the beauty of his still-sleeping wife, and looks in awe at trees transformed by snow. He rises, fondly changes his baby daughter's diaper, and carries her downstairs, warmly conscious of the absent-minded pat of her hands on his neck. His wife bustles down and prepares breakfast. While he is eating it, he sees, through a window, a great crow settle on a snowy branch. It seems to him the most wonderful thing he has ever seen, and he calls his wife excitedly. "The woman's pragmatic blue eyes...
...matter of my health too." Galbraith, who issued the original invitation last November, had to change signals diplomatically all around India. The Maharajah of Mysore, for example, stopped the training of an elephant that was to put a garland of flowers around the First Lady's neck with its trunk. Back to their stalls went the maharajah's performing horses...