Word: neck
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...haunt of U.S. soldiers at the base. He had a drink with a dark-haired woman dressed in blue jeans, who appeared to be with a tall mustachioed man she called Jeff. Pimental left with the couple. Next morning he was found dead, shot in the back of the neck with a large-caliber gun. Minutes after his body was found, a terrorist car bomb exploded inside the U.S. Rhein-Main Air Base some 20 miles away, killing two people, both Americans, and injuring...
...blowing up the Justice Palace," says a Bogotá lawyer bitterly, "but they couldn't get a water pump to Armero to save the life of a little girl." Indeed, 13-year-old Omaira Sanchez had become a national hero for surviving for 60 hours while up to her neck in muddy water. A privately donated pump arrived shortly after the girl's heart finally gave...
...French policemen, the kepi was never the most practical of headgear. It had a tendency to fall off when the wearer chased a fleeing criminal, and it did not keep the rain off the neck. Still, an era ended earlier this month when the kepi began disappearing from the heads of police in Paris and elsewhere. The round, pillbox cap is being replaced by a flat-topped, short-beaked hat of the style worn by U.S. police...
Maybe it makes perfect sense that Steve Wynn would turn into the Mister Rogers of Las Vegas, Nevada. Sitting in his new hotel in a red V-neck sweater and gray wool pants, Wynn, 63-famous for yelling at employees, taking up steer roping and accidentally shooting off his index finger in his office-is talking about building neighborhoods in his latest land of make-believe. Explaining that his hotel will be a mellow retreat, without the glitz and campy themes that have made him such a sensation in the past, Wynn breaks into a rendition of Bali...
...then I think, No--if I did it over again, I would be more careful, try not to get busted, make more money from drugs but have more organization. That's what I learned in prison." He has thought about getting a job, but the tattoos on his neck and face are an instant red flag to potential employers. "It's hard to change," he added. "Society pushes you back into the same pile of s___ you came out of. Back into the 'hood, drinking, kicking and selling drugs to a bunch of young kids, preparing them to take your...