Word: neck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doctor arrived minutes later, at about 5:10 a.m. He found that Valerie had been stabbed six times around her nose and left eye, once in the neck, twice in the chest and twice in the stomach. There were four cone-shaped puncture wounds in her skull, all caused by heavy, bludgeon-like blows. Dr. Hohf slowly descended the circular staircase to the living room where Percy, Loraine, Sharon and Gail sat in wordless shock. Percy rose, and Hohf said: "Valerie is gone. She is dead...
...until an unexpected waterfall smashed their craft. They came upon a third village that appeared abandoned: it was instead loaded with death. A man sprang from a hut and hit Martin on the leg with a machete; a second swipe hit the stumbling Air Force pilot between shoulders and neck, beheading him. Dengler fled back into the bush...
...state of opera everywhere, there is very little else that Rudolph Bing has got wrong. For 16 years he has stood in the dead center of a musical vortex and managed to conduct both himself and opera with admirable skill. Dragging opera by the scruff of the neck into modern times, demanding improvements in production techniques and performance quality, Bing has helped the art to achieve the Wagnerian ideal of Gesamtkunstwerk, the amalgamation of drama, singing, acting and dancing into total theater...
While doing his thesis research, Author Epstein turned up a "supplemental" FBI report dated Jan. 13, 1964 that threw some doubt on all this. The report said that the bullet that struck Kennedy's neck had penetrated "less than a finger-length"-a conclusion that, if true, meant it could not have gone through and hit Connally. This report is the basis for the belief that after Jan. 13 the autopsy report was changed for some devious reason, most likely to rule out the existence of a second assassin. The facts, however, are much simpler: FBI reports are dated...
...recall, was really just a million laughs. Like, haha, the pointy-headed captain (Dick Shawn) who went by the regulation book right down to the last typographical error. Or the takeover lieutenant (James Coburn) who possessed a unique gift for bringing disorder out of chaos. And remember the no-neck sergeant (Aldo Ray) who hollered so loud he scared the roaches out of the popcorn? Not to mention all those dogfaces from Flatbush who seldom shot anything more dangerous than dice, and when anybody said "tanks" respectfully replied "yuh welcome...