Word: neck
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...going to take any chances with the Last Chance Dance. But I am already feeling my parents breathing down my neck about commencement tickets—another looming problem for seniors. Each family gets four tickets to the rather anonymous proceedings at Tercentenary Theater. For people who dare to bring, say, both sets of grandparents or an aunt and an uncle, this simply will not do. Offers to buy commencement tickets started flying on list-servs in late March; still most people I know who’ve dreamed of their entire families attending have yet to find success...
...made more than 40 solo winter climbs of Colorado's Fourteeners (peaks taller than 14,000 ft.), bringing just water, candy bars and an ice ax--no cell phone, no GPS, not so much as a rope. In February, while skiing near Vail, Colo., Ralston was buried to his neck in an avalanche; a friend was completely submerged for 10 minutes. When an Aspen Times reporter came calling in March for a story on Ralston's climbing feats, the outdoorsman told the paper the ski trip was "one of--no, I can't even say one of--the stupidest things...
...Uday's house. Nouman persuaded Naadi to let her represent him. The charges were so obviously false that the court threw them out without much argument. But the clock had begun to run down on Nouman's liberty. "My friends told me I had cut my own neck," she says. "But I thought Uday wouldn't dare to touch a lawyer, a respected member of society...
...Uday's house. Nouman persuaded Naadi to let her represent him. The charges were so obviously false that the court threw them out without much argument. But the clock had begun to run down on Nouman's liberty. "My friends told me I had cut my own neck," she says. "But I thought Uday wouldn't dare to touch a lawyer, a respected member of society." How wrong she was. Barely a month after the Naadi verdict, in a casual conversation with law colleagues, Nouman said the fateful words, "There's no justice in this country." Someone informed the police...
Time since Waiters, who allegedly grabbed the 13-year-old by the neck, tossed him over a desk, and then tackled him to the ground while punching him in the face, retired from his career as an N.F.L linebacker...