Word: necked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Each prisoner was brought down and told to kneel before an officer in the yard. He was asked to explain why he had been brought in and was told he was being released. Then guards would leap from the darkness, loop a thick rope round the victim's neck and slowly strangle him. The coup de gráce was a sledgehammer blow to the chest. It took about ten minutes to kill each prisoner. The bodies were piled in trucks and driven north for five hours to the Karuma Falls to be thrown to the crocodiles. Whenever...
...tour hasn't always been an artistic or financial asset, even as recently as Rudolf Bing's regime. "The tour is the albatross hung around the neck of the manager of the Metropolitan Opera. Eventually, I suppose, it will simply fall off from sheer economic weight... Whatever we do, the tour is artistically a scandal," Bing wrote in his memoirs...
...body of Guillermo Diaz Lestrem turned up like a ghastly flower in Buenos Aires' elegant Palermo Park late last fall. The cause of death was heart failure and fluid in the lungs; the corpse had bruises on the face and neck. Shortly before he vanished, Lestrem, a defense lawyer and former judge, had prepared a writ of habeas corpus-on his own behalf. He had discovered that unknown men were looking for him and feared that he would become yet another of Argentina's "desaparecidos...
...boats were neck and neck at the 300 meter mark, and the heavies expected to nab the Big Green with their sprint. But the Dartmouth eight pulled a surprise, beginning its sprint early--with 300 meters to go--edging just in front of the 'Cliffe boat, which had grabbed the lead at 1500 meters...
Harvard and Dartmouth were neck and neck until the last minutes of the game today. When the Crimson receivers dropped a few key passes...