Word: neck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fusillade that killed six in the throng, wounded twelve. In the stunned aftermath, the mob picked up a dead 17-year-old boy, laid him along a barbed-wire fence. His mother pushed his tongue back into his mouth and closed his eyes; others draped a crucifix around his neck and a Vietnamese flag over his body. Khanh emerged expressing sorrow, and pleaded, "Please go back to your homes. This is an affair of state...
...most healthy people, the disease is usually marked by nothing more than a bad headache and moderate fever. But in some victims, especially the very old and the very young, it has devastating effects: headache, stiff neck, high fever and vomiting. Some patients have convulsions and lapse into coma; a few of the survivors suffer crippling brain damage. On the average, SLE kills 10% of those it strikes. Despite more than 30 years of research, no satisfactory vaccine has yet been developed to immunize humans...
Most of the derelict sculptures wash away with the tide. But some are such masterpieces that they regularly cause crack-ups by gawking drivers on the nearby freeway. One is a 12-ft. gallows with the 13 steps and a hanging effigy, its neck snapped at a medically correct angle. Another is a dinosaur and pterodactyl combination well planted in the muck. Last week a 17-year-old high-schooler named Wayne Saxton finished his fifth dereliction - a mammoth Viking warrior standing almost 20 ft. high. "I like Vikings," said he, as if that explained everything...
Human-to-Human Serum. Dr. Tierkel also had good news for people who may be bitten by suspected rabid animals around the head and neck-from which the virus may reach the central nervous system before abdominal injections have time to build up protective antibody. Since 1954. these victims have been injected with antirabies serum from horses. This gives only short-lived, "passive" immunity, but it works fast. The trouble is that horse serum is almost as dangerous as the rabbit-brain product. Now, said Dr. Tierkel, veterinarians and others who have had a full course of vaccinations are being...
...tick off that one. Half a dozen others were walking wounded: California Schoolteacher Mike Larrabee forgot an injured pancreas (courtesy of a student's accidental judo chop) long enough to breeze through the 400 meter; World Discus Champ Al Oerter strapped on a brace to protect a pinched neck nerve and beat the nearest Russian by 12 ft.; a pulled hamstring nearly benched Salt Lake City's Blaine Lindgren, but he underwent heat and sound treatments and won the 110-meter hurdles anyway...