Word: neck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...estranged wife of Lord Lucan, the great-great-grandson of the misguided commander who ordered the charge of the Light Brigade, burst through the door of the Plumbers' Arms, a pub near her house. With blood spurting from several head wounds, she screamed: "Murder! Murder! I think my neck has been broken. He tried to kill me. I think I am dying." Actually Lady Lucan, 35, was not grievously wounded. When police searched her five-story town house, however, they found the body of the family's 29-year-old nanny stuffed into a canvas...
...certainly endured the beatings. During the summer before his freshman year at Stanford, he had a tumor removed from his neck and doctors thought he'd never be able to play again. Since then, he's had two operations on his knees, broken his ribs several times, and suffered other minor injuries...
...ground before 63,000 spectators, unable to move. Moments before, he had been toting the pigskin, trying to gain yardage for his team. Yet there he lay, the victim of a jarring tackle which landed him upside down. The result: a damaged spinal cord and instant paralysis from the neck down...
...Shah maintains that he is building a force with the primary mission of protecting Arabs and Iranians alike in the Persian Gulf, from which 86% of the non-Communist world's crude shipments originate. The gulf at its neck narrows until the supertanker channel is only twelve miles wide at the Strait of Hormuz, which Premier Hoveida calls "our jugular vein." Iran worries that dissident forces, like the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman, which is currently fighting Sultan Qabus in Oman, could block the strait by sinking a supertanker. The Shah's response has been...
...from trying to create new relationships between the parts of speech or "wringing the neck of rhetoric," Auden seems simply to be trying to restore some of the freshness of his old voice. Sometimes he succeeds, sometimes he is merely awkward. For example, one of the best things about Auden's early poetry was the way he integrated popular speech into his own poetic voice; but that kind of success is largely a question of touch, of getting the nuance just right, and Auden doesn't seem to have been able to assimilate the characteristic phrases of the sixties...