Word: necked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very rough competition, Irvings managed to win five bouts on Friday and six more on Saturday. His record in the competitions this year showed N.Y.U.'s George Szunyogh, was stabbed in the neck in a freak fencing accident, but miraculously the blade missed his jugular vein and he was able to re-enter competition after receiving medical treatment...
...small sidestreet-Scotia Street near the Cheri theatres-policemen broke ranks and ran after demonstrators who had either lagged behind or fallen down. They struck about seven people with clubs, shoving one up against a brick wall and back to the street, hitting him repeatedly on the neck and back...
...well equipped are reactors to avert accidents? Out of almost 4000 construction standards for nuclear plants only about 100 have been officially recognized. And in the recent construction of a reactor in Gravel Neck, Virginia, the welding superintendent admitted that as many as 5000 welds in vital parts of the structure could be defective. A cooling water failure might precipitate a "runaway" which could cause a high-power steam explosion within one-hundredth of a second. Vernon's emergency cooling system takes from three to ten seconds to become effectively operational...
...Thorton lived alone in her house. "It tore the place to bits," she says. "I was in a corner, and all of a sudden a great big piece of concrete flew in and then flew out. I screamed and that's all I remember." Miss Thorton hurt her neck, though not seriously...
...make things easier by not asking questions. McCleavey, the only real or proximate innocent in the whole lot, get arrested at the end of the play through connivance of his son, his fiance and-yes-Truscott. McCleavey has run for the police to get Truscott off his neck. But Truscott is the police, the absurd is authority...