Word: neck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biggest surprise of the day came in the 200 yard butterfly, where Bulldog captain George Bissell was expected to lead teammate Dave Karetsky and Harvard's John Pringle by about four seconds to set a pool record. After 150 yards, however, Karetsky and Pringle were neck and neck, several yards ahead of the highly touted Yale captain...
...post that could break or make a politician. Last week African nationalists, white settlers and a sizable bloc of Tory M.P.s all had a try at breaking Macleod in a bitter fight over the political future of racially divided Northern Rhodesia. At stake, along with Macleod's neck, is survival of the entire Central African Federation, a wobbly, three-state union as big as Texas, California and New York...
Rarely had Hollywood, which knows something about such things, witnessed such a spectacle of eye gouging, groin kicking and neck chopping. To a lavishly mirrored studio on Los Angeles' South La Cienega Boulevard last week came a pack of TV and film stars to watch an exhibition of the latest fad in craze-crazy filmland: karate. A more violent cousin of jujitsu and judo, Japanese-imported karate (pronounced kah-rah-tay) aims at delivering a fatal or merely maiming blow with hand, finger, elbow or foot, adopts the defensive philosophy that an attacker deserves something more memorable than...
...earlier, Buchta battled Howard neck-and-neck for the entire last lap, and edged him out at the finish in 2:14.6. another Cage record. Howard's record of 2:14.8, set Saturday, died quickly...
...fact that the patient's relief from pain often lasts for weeks or months, though the procaine itself wears off in a few hours. She has treated herself and practically every member of her family, including her husband, Investment Counselor John Powell, who gets his pains in the neck. She became one of Kennedy's doctors in 1955, when she stopped the back cramps that he suffered after a spine operation (TIME, Jan. 27). Kennedy calls her "a genius...