Word: necked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...episodes, lasting from minutes to several hours, of 1) numbness in a limb or the face; 2) weakness or drooping on one side of the body; 3) speech difficulties; 4) blurring of vision, usually in one eye; 5) dizziness and double vision; or 6) severe headache and a stiff neck. Anyone who experiences such "little strokes" should visit a physician promptly. Many of these premonitory strokes result from a blockage in the internal carotid artery above the jaw line, where it is beyond reach of the scalpel. Thus the obstruction may be treatable only by a difficult bypass, diverting blood...
...socialist-communist alliance and the ruling coalition parties were running nearly neck-and-neck in the first round of French parliamentary elections yesterday, diminishing chances for a leftist government...
...honor the will. Near the end he looked ghastly, the skin on his face drawn into a horrible sneer, his lips pulled away from his teeth, and his arms colored green from the intravenous tubes. He had been a very handsome man, with blonde hair cut at the neck, a jutting chin, and an easy, ready smile...
...crash as devotees bound to and fro, somehow avoiding a collision. They hop and leap, pony tails bobbing, mouths agape, chanting, "Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare..." The energy ripples through the congregation. A man violently rocks from his waist up, glazed eyes bobbing above a limber neck. A swaying woman, dressed in a sarong, catches a red carnation. She closes her eyes, smells the flower, grins and flings it to someone else. A woman devotee bounces with her baby's face pressed in her sarong. Another child hops at her feet, his hands thrust to the ceiling...
...dances in last week's Boston program suggested particularly strong emotional overtones. In one, "Solo," Cunningham's own dancing captures with eerie accuracy the furtive watchfulness of a hunted animal. From Cunningham's entrance--back swayed, neck stiff, knees bent, arms and hands contorted downwards, the dance is shot through with images of deformity and entrapment. Cunningham hunches down on the floor, all crippled angles, his head and tongue jerking like a lizard's. His hands tremble fitfully, one foot gropes outward in blind patterns, or--suddenly alert in awful stillness--he glances warily offstage. Movements sputter for a moment...