Word: neck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...otherwise, the rumors that the flames of romance that Rudi and Margot kindle onstage also rage offstage are false. Margot is married to Dr. Roberto ("Tito") Arias, 46, former Panamanian Ambassador to Britain. Arias, who was shot by a political enemy in Panama last June, is paralyzed from the neck down, and Margot spends three hours on the train every day in order to visit him in the hospital in Buckingham shire, where he is being treated...
Atlas of Anatomy. The surgeons needed free access to the patient's neck region, so they cut a hole into his windpipe and inserted a tube through which he got all later anesthesia. They clamped his jaws tightly shut and fastened his head in a frame to hold it at an unnatural angle-at first, 15° backward and 20° to the left. They made a long incision from below his ear around past the windpipe. At last, U.C.'s Dr. Roland K. Perkins and Dr. Ronald J. Stoney could start moving closer to the target...
What is Mailer's "American Dream?" It must be a whole horizon of dreams gone sour, not into nightmares but into that phantasmagoric horror of hallucinogens, where one feels the vomit recede back down the throat through massive pressure from neck muscles. The Valentino Dream of sexual power gone wild as Rojack somersaults with the maid while his wife's corpse empties its intestines on the upstairs rug; the Dream of the Heiress polluted by Deborah's guileful malevolence; The Alger Dream of self-made empires gone rotten in her father's diabolic machinations; The Westerner Dream of the loner...
...City of Angels used to be a place where culture feared to tread. But to day the traffic slowing down to neck-crane along Wilshire Boulevard is not looking for stars but admiring the shimmering complex of pavilions surrounded by a moatlike reflecting pool of vastly more substance and value than was ever to be seen in a DeMille superset. Only four months after the opening of its new Music Center, which packs pews each evening, the new Los Angeles County Museum of Art opens this week, making Los Angeles the artistic capital of the U.S. West...
...first boats were neck-and-neck, and their skippers eyeing each other pervously to see who would be first to heave to and lower his mast and sails. A lead boat swung around and dropped her mast about 25 yards from the bridge. The crew began paddling furiously. Several other crews profited from this hasty decision and waited until they were still closer to the bridge before unstepping...