Word: neck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ruby at first received treatment for a virus at the jail, was hospitalized only after he assured Sheriff William Decker that he was feeling "not worth a damn." Though the precise source of Ruby's cancer remained undetermined, tests showed a malignancy in a lymph node in his neck and a cluster of nodules in the chest and lungs. So far advanced is the cancer that doctors ruled out surgery and radiation, instead gave Ruby regular intravenous doses of 5-fluorouracil, a drug that starves cancerous cells and, when successful, slows the deadly spread of the disease...
...Harris says that she was overjoyed when she discovered that her co-star in the recent TV revival of Blithe Spirit would be Rachel Roberts, because the two were born under the same sign, and get along especially well together. Rudolf Nureyev wears a gold Pisces medallion around his neck. Peter Sellers has consulted a clairvoyant for the past six years, says, "It's a lot like going to a head shrinker...
...caught only three passes all year, but one of them set up the game-winning touchdown when the Packers beat the Baltimore Colts three weeks ago to clinch the N.F.L.'s Western Division championship. Halfback Paul Hornung, 30, and painfully burdened by a pinched nerve in his neck, is still, by the consensus of his fellow pros, "the greatest money player in the game." And Quarterback Bart Starr, at 32, is the No. 1 passer in the N.F.L. (156 completions in 251 attempts, for 2,257 yds.); last week he was voted the most valuable player in the league...
...book is saved from the Venus flytrap of ladies' magazine fiction by its easy intimacy with the ambiance of those days of picnic baskets and tennis flannels. The author has a sophisticated sense of the tensions that show among even the most beautiful people - like the stringy neck muscles beneath an aging face that has been given too much expensive care...
...students are Suzanne E. Young of Edmands House and East Orange, N.J., Paul Hamburg of Adams House and Great Neck, N.Y., and Xavier H. Reyes of Eliot House and Los Angeles...