Word: neck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Generations of G.I.s have learned to use the bowl-shaped M1 combat helmet as a hammer for tent stakes, a shaving basin and a stew pot -as well as, of course, a means of protection. But the old "wobble pot" is also literally a pain in the neck. It comes in only one size (with adjustable liner), feels like a ton (actual weight: 3 Ibs. 4 oz.) and a soldier has to hold it on when he runs. At last, relief is in sight. The U.S. Army Research and Development Command at Natick, Mass., is field-testing a new design...
...police announcements, from such unlikely causes as slipping in a prison shower and falling against a chair. Four police interrogators who were accused of culpable homicide in the death of African Nationalist Joseph Mdluli last year were acquitted even though one judge later commented that Mdluli's neck wounds were "most probably" inflicted by police...
...tragic luck would have it, Davenport suffered a fractured vertebra at the base of his neck last week against Columbia while plunging in for Harvard's first touchdown in the second quarter. He is now out for the season...
September 22. 1977--Tim Davenport's Harvard football career came to an abrupt conclusion yesterday, when X-rays revealed that the senior quarterback had fractured a vertebra in his neck...
Brown opted for Cambridge instead and tomorrow, Restic may very well opt for him to replace the injured Tim Davenport, who is out for the season with a fractured neck vertebra...