Word: neck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...girls came on the line later with some advice that sounded more official than wifely. Said Pat White to her husband: "Now have a drink of water." White answered: "Roger. Standing by for a drink of water." Pat McDivitt told Jim, "Disconnect your headset communications at the neck ring from now on at the start of your sleep period. No static on that. Did you get the message to disconnect your headset?" McDivitt came in loud, clear and obedient: "I sure...
...children, lest there be some mistake-has been participating in the local arts festival rather more enthusiastically than anyone planned. Her pet project is a famous Italian composer-pianist (Rossano Brazzi). The two look at one another, and the sound track booms concerti. On a chain around her neck Maureen wears the gold medal Brazzi won at the festival, a clue that her course in music appreciation has advanced beyond the hand-holding stage...
...memos, receives visitors or pores over the pieces from newspapers and magazines that are clipped for him by Stella Russell, by his secretary, and by his Negro houseboy who, Simon insists, has a nose for news. Eternally restless, he constantly tweaks his ears, rubs his eyes, pulls at his neck, scratches his ankle, and chews constantly on a phenomenal number of Italian caramels that somehow do not seem to increase his steady weight of 180 Ibs. And, of course, he frets, worries and broods all the while...
...immobile form of the famed Western scout Kit Carson, by then elevated to the rank of brigadier general. Beshoar examined him, noted his difficulty in speaking and moving his right arm or leg, and readily found the reason: a large, soft swelling on the left side of his neck. Beshoar knew it was a massive aneurysm of the carotid artery, and that he could do nothing about it. He did all he could to make the patient more comfortable, then referred him to the nearest Army hospital at Fort Lyon 90 miles away. There, two weeks later, Kit Carson died...
...clot shutdowns where the arteries are inside the skull and inaccessible. But Dr. DeBakey thinks that as many as 20% of the clots occur in the carotid and vertebral arteries, below the floor of the skull, where the surgeon can get at them through an incision in the neck...