Word: neck
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...gunmen moved ahead of them. At one moment, Masarweh heard an enormous fusillade and explosions outside his house; everyone, he says, climbed out a window, crossed a yard and crowded into another house, which was crammed with 200 people. Masarweh's wife received shrapnel wounds in her leg and neck...
...them walked into the camp commander's office with a laundry basket, pulled out a crowbar and drove it through the commander's forehead. The revolt quickly turned into a massacre, with 17 guards gunned down or drowned trying to flee the island. Yang took a bullet through the neck but survived...
...clubs owned by the defendant's mother. Carver said the great force of the blows pierced the girl's skull and brain and that one blow was so sharp and piercing, virtually a stab, that it dragged a lock of her hair through one side of the neck and out the other. As many as nine blows may have been delivered, said Carver. "The assumption I am making," he announced, "is that only one club was used...
...that he belonged to the ruling Nepali Congress Party, was beyond speech. Eventually his torturers?a crowd of 60 girls and boys in Maoist uniforms and rebel-red bandannas?grew tired. Selecting a sharpened kukri (a small machete), one of them stepped forward and sliced halfway through Jnawali's neck in a single blow. And that's how his wife and son found him, cut to pieces, head partly severed, when they dared to venture out into the yard the next morning. No one knew whether he had died of shock or bled to death, but the pool of blood...
Some debutantes key into the tradition more than others. With her short hair pulled back in sparkly barrettes, funky jewelry dangling from her neck and Saucony sneakers peaking out from the bottom of her pants, Elizabeth H. Hagan ’02-’03 looks like she’d rather be at a SoHo coffee house than a formal tea party. But Hagan was born and raised in Atlanta and comes from a long line of debutantes. “I absolutely refused to participate in the process,” she says...