Word: necked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ARCHITECTURAL GLASS. About 100,000 people accidentally walk through glass doors each year. Some bleed to death before medical aid can arrive. One father testified that he barely managed to stop a glass shard dropping in its casing from falling like a guillotine blade on the neck of his dazed and bleeding son. Serious injuries occur because most doors are made with ordinary glass that can break at a slight blow. The solution is obvious: require that household doors be made with safety glass, which crumbles instead of shattering...
...cycle. Both make him uncomfortable, and he likes speed because it sort of rounds off the corners. Or that's what he said. But right then, at that moment, what he really wanted was some grass, because he had an abcess in his mouth that was moving down his neck. It stood out like a blue neon log, almost three inches long. Roger went to the free Clipic on Mt. Auburn St., but they don't do dental work. Nobody in fact does dental work. So all Roger could do was take pain killers like smack or cocaine, but that...
During last October's Weatherman rampage, Chicago Assistant Corporation Counsel Richard Elrod was paralyzed from the neck down. Police lost no time arresting his alleged assailant, Brian Flanagan, 22. and charging him with attempted murder. Since then, however, neither the authorities nor Elrod has shown much interest in prosecuting the case. After a grand jury reduced the charge against Flanagan to aggravated battery, the prosecution consented to three continuances. The reason for their reluctance seems political, not judicial. Campaigning in a wheelchair, Elrod is running for sheriff, and the trial can only hurt his campaign...
According to police and newspaper reports at the time, Flanagan attacked Elrod with a pipe, breaking his neck. But according to two witnesses, Elrod's injuries are the result of his own actions, not Flanagan's. Richard Hinchion, 43, an insulating contractor from Munster, Ind., says that Flanagan was running from the police when Elrod, apparently responding to a cry of "Stop that man!" joined the chase. Attempting a football-style block, he bowled Flanagan over, then crashed headfirst into the wall of a restaurant. Michael Rollins, 35, a reporter for Chicago radio station WCFL, confirms Hinchion...
...animal. Not a really wild animal, but a poorly domesticated one-petulant rather than fierce, caught in a thicket of heavy-legged furniture. At one moment of electric outrage, she turns her back to the audience, raises clenched fists to heaven like Antigone, then slowly lowers them to her neck, like just another housewife with just another nagging backache. In this magnificent little cycle of rebellion and surrender, Miss Worth defines her theme: trapped impotence...