Word: neck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...army officers had been detained for questioning or put under house arrest because they opposed the government line on Lebanon. But Prager found no imminent signs of a coup or precautions against one, although one Arab diplomat told him, "It is worse than ever. Assad is up to his neck...
...back and enjoy the game: Make a dollar bet with that man chomping on a cigar and waving a Yankees pennant. Ask the woman with the transistor radio what the score of the Celtics game is. And do not forget to strain your neck and watch the replay of the big hit, which you missed while soaking in the rays and catching a few Z's, on the all-new scoreboard...
...capture in 1972. Last week Meinhof used desperation's last resort against herself. Guards at Stuttgart's Stammheim prison, where she, along with three fellow terrorists, had been confined for a year, found Meinhof hanging from her cell window, a makeshift rope of toweling around her neck...
...ludicrous: Will David get stuck in an elevator? Will his wife accidentally drink a glass of hydrochloric acid? What is the meaning of her mysterious nosebleed? Later the blood flows everywhere and the sea is awash with gore: "The moray struck, needle teeth fastening on the man's neck, throat convulsing as it pulled back toward the hole. Blood billowed out of the sides of the moray's mouth." That moray eel, which figures in the book's penultimate scene, is unlikely to start a craze or appear on T shirts. As for The Deep...
Responding to Glazer's "colorblind" comment, Allison, a black, said "with all the handicaps you've already put on me, I'm supposed to forget about it and run the 100-yard dash with you with a twentypound weight around my neck. That weight may seem invisible to you, but it sure slows down the process...