Word: necked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...journal to We Live! It was during this time that Hospital Patient Kollar fell under their suspicion: the underground group feared that he would betray them. Said Ilona Toth: "I felt I had to kill him." When her needles failed, one of her companions stood on Kollar's neck and she dispatched him with a knife...
...Great Neck...
...Emmet Booth will finally win. His pursuit of Miranda has the tried and true fascination of that famous cliche from East-of-Suez movies: the beautiful planter's wife playing Chopin while, across the terrace, a large speckled snake glides towards the heroine, ready to strike that lovely neck...
...bones of the upper jaw so that most of the face is detached from its moorings, then fixing the bones in a new alignment. And some patients are heroic: a woman whose entire lower jaw was removed for cancer in 1939, so that her tongue hung down her neck, has had 27 plastic operations. She has a new lower jaw with a denture, and eats normally. Though now presentable-looking, she would like to give the plastic surgeon a chance to achieve perfection in his art. So, says Gillies: "When I am on my last ride in my little...
...species. Some tapeworms are almost microscopic; others may be more than 100 ft. long. They are all following the same basic way of life. The adult consists of a "head" (scolex) that clings with hooks and suckers to the host's intestine. Below the head is a short neck that grows continually and differentiates into segments that become filled with eggs and sperm as they mature. The younger segments are chiefly male, and their sperm fertilizes eggs released by older segments farther downstream. A single worm can do the whole job and sometimes produces several billion eggs...