Word: neck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wolfe was most often criticized for his break neck style and for playing fast and loose with the facts. Dwight Mac Donald called him a "parajournalist." But none of it seemed to be getting to Wolfe, who kept on churning it out, kept getting more outrageous, didn't seem to care...
...said a citizen may become less willing "to stick his neck out" and give the government information if the information may be used against...
...hospital. This time doctors decided to operate and removed a large blood clot pressing on Kelly's brain. Had surgery been performed earlier, Kelly might well have made a good recovery. But the delay resulted in permanent brain damage, leaving him mute and paralyzed from the neck down. The boy's family sued the hospital, the pediatrician and the school district for negligence, and was awarded $4,025,000 in damages, one of the largest malpractice settlements on record...
...defect corrected. But before surgery, Fertig suffered a rare reaction to a widely used general anesthetic. His body temperature rose and remained at 108°, long enough to cause extensive brain damage. As a result, Fertig, now 24, is blind, cannot speak, and is paralyzed from the neck down. After bringing suit against the Federal Government, charging that doctors at the hospital had not monitored the administration of the anesthesia and that they had done nothing to control the violent reaction, Fertig and his family were awarded a $1 million settlement...
...sentimental journeys to childhood beer gardens, and never, never reread Look Homeward, Angel. But here comes Science Fiction Writer Ray Bradbury's magical boyhood novel Dandelion Wine, republished in a new edition after 19 years. Is its magic powerful enough to make it young again, or is its neck corded and scrawny in the collar of that new dust jacket...