Word: necked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never got to know Grady very well during the five months I worked on that newspaper. But now I have a photograph of him hanging above my desk. He's standing on a plot of farmland in rural and red-neck Yadkin County, grinning broadly, wearing green silk robes and cradling a machine gun. Joe Grady was the Grand Dragon of North Carolina's Federated Knights of the Ku Klux Klan...
...seemed to have learned even to joke about her ordeal. She opened a bulky ski parka to show a T shirt bearing the words PARDON ME. She pointed to a large round pendant hung around her neck with the inscription SURVIVOR, 2-4-74, the date she was dragged screaming from her apartment by the S.L.A. "Now I'll get the other date on at the bottom," she vowed. "Today's date...
...aspirins, sat at the bottom of the steps. At sunrise, somewhere over Turkey, the Ayatullah said prayers, then was served an omelet for breakfast. When the captain announced that the plane had flown into Iranian airspace and would land in Tehran in half an hour, the Ayatullah craned his neck to look down on the magnificent spectacle of the snow-covered Zagros Mountains. 'The Ayatullah,' murmured one of his senior aides, 'is back in his country...
Almost all of their wounds were in the stomach, chest, neck or head. One doctor, his white apron covered with blood, looked shocked as he probed them. "They are trying to kill these people," he said. Fifteen of those who had been wheeled into Pahlavi would die after surgery. One was a man in his 50s, another a 16-year-old boy. There was a young, muscular soldier whose uniform, even in death, was still smartly pressed. Outraged by the massacre, he had wounded his commanding officer and had in turn been fatally shot by his own comrades...
...fourth race at Santa Anita was for four-year-old horses that have never won, otherwise known as "maidens." The purse was $13,000, the crowd sparse and the Southern California weather mucky. The winner by a neck: a 5-to-2 shot named Father Duffy...