Word: necked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Running considerably behind Reagan and neck and neck with John Connally in the polls, Baker hopes to break away from his rivals in the primaries in Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana. Since surveys indicate that he arouses less hostility than either Reagan or Connally, he thinks he can emerge as a compromise candidate. But he is not as well organized as fellow moderate George Bush, and his staff, led primarily by Tennesseans, is inexperienced in national politics...
...were killed, on the suspicion that they knew how to read or write. Of the 500 physicians in Cambodia in 1975, only 57 survived the Khmer Rouge purge. People suspected of lagging on the job were punished by death, rendered by a hatchet blow on the back of the neck, or, as many refugees have reported, by evisceration. Groups of children who were found guilty of being the offspring of "undesirables" were reportedly chained together, then buried alive in bomb craters under dirt that was shoved on top of them by bulldozers. Between 1975 and 1978, from 2 million...
...days later, during a 21/2-hour operation, doctors removed the Shah's gall bladder after finding gallstones both there and in the bile duct; the blockage had caused the Shah to turn yellow from jaundice. The surgeons also took lymph nodes from his neck and a slice from his liver, and afterward made a more serious announcement: the Shah was suffering from histiocytic lymphoma, a form of cancer of the lymphatic system. The disease also involved his spleen, but, said the hospital's physician in chief, Dr. Hibbard Williams, ''some potential for cure exists...
...other differences of course is that this time Joe Timilty's neck is really on the line. Timilty has a lot more to lose than another election and the $25,000 loan he took out before the preliminary. If the state senator is relatively young in years, he's twice his age in political saleability and getting older each time he runs. If there was little personal animosity between the two perennial opponents the first time they played this show, there's a whole lot now. Like Peter the Great in Sweden, Joe Timilty has regrouped and come back...
...left of his now-white hair glows in the cold sunshine. If he's not already there, the mayor is fast approaching mid-life crisis. If he's not mayor of Boston again, there's not much else that Kevin White wants to do. If Timilty has his neck on the line. White has his pride to lose this time--and probably some of his ego. And in his sometimes arrogant manner, the mayor has spent his $1.5 million and pulled out all the stops...