Word: neck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sport's traditions. Pausing to insert a cigarette in a new golden holder, and watching to see that the photographers had a good angle, Delp held forth: "My horse is gonna win. I predict that now. My horse is gonna win unless he breaks his leg or his neck...
During World War II, some 200 people, mostly black, lived in coastal Harris Neck, Ga., farming small plots, raising cows, pigs and chickens and fishing for oysters, shrimp and crabs. But in 1942 the Army began evicting the residents, paying them less than $10 an acre for their land, and built an emergency airbase. After the war, the 2,687 acres passed from one unit of Government to another; finally, in the early 1960s, the land was declared "surplus property" and turned into a federal haven for geese, ducks and deer. Apparently no one considered selling the land back...
After waiting nearly 40 years for someone in Washington to do something about their grievance, 50 former residents and descendants peacefully invaded the Harris Neck Wildlife Refuge. They set up tents and vowed to remain until the Government was willing to discuss giving back the land, rebuilding their homes and paying $50 million in damages. Last week a federal judge in Savannah ordered the protesters to leave. When four men refused, they were arrested by federal marshals. As the men were taken away, scores of supporters stood outside the refuge's barbed-wire fence, crying, praying and singing...
...Harrison (Tom Conti) is paralyzed from the neck down after a car crash. Possessing a terrible lucidity about his sorry state, Harrison wants to die. Self-righteously governed by a rigid ethical imperative, the doctor in charge, Dr. Emerson (Philip Bosco), means to prolong Harrison's existence...
Symptons include a rash, possibly a small fever, and the swelling of the lymph glands in the back of the neck, Wacker said. "Basically the patient will feel very tired," he added...