Word: neck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yale opened the second half looking for blood, and quickly closing the gap. Tearing down the court at break-neck speed, the Yalies succeded in changing the pace of the game and destroyed Harvard's control of the procedings...
...large "borderline" range of consumer durables, including cars, radio sets and kitchen appliances, Europe and the U.S. are in neck-and-neck competition...
...million other Americans, settled down to watch herself in action as guide to CBS's Charles Collingwood on an hour-long White House tour that had been taped a month before. She had refused the services of a CBS makeup artist, wore a wireless microphone around her neck with the pack and battery concealed in the small of her back. Pamela Turnure, her press secretary, had been instructed how to adjust the mike if anything went wrong. Explained Collingwood later: "We couldn't have a technician fiddling with the First Lady's person." From her first whispery...
...most baffling glands in the body is the thymus. It lies just below the neck and behind the top of the breastbone, and in all the centuries that man has been studying physiology, its purpose has been unclear. It has hitherto fallen to butchers, marketing the thymus of the lamb and calf as the "neck sweetbread," to give the gland its only obvious usefulness. Now a British cancer researcher...
Because Hays and Gilbert only sing, the whole responsibility for instrumental background falls on Darling and Fred Hellerman. The extraordinary competence of both, particularly Hellerman on the guitar, is a large factor in the cohesion and warmth of the group. Darling sticks to the long-necked banjo most of the time, but switched to guitar for a solo number where he gave a fairly good rendition of some bottle neck blues...