Word: necked
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Though normally a wooden campaigner who looks somewhat like an Episcopal rector (which he is), Danforth now crisscrosses the state in a van and tells voters that he wants to be a "pain in the neck" in Washington. He lost a narrow Senate race in 1970, but he is spending heavily against his opponent, ex-Governor Warren E. Hearnes, who is severely tarnished by allegations of scandal in his past administration...
...growing belief that Carter is a liberal, which has become a negative label for many voters. Of the people surveyed, 35% regard him as a liberal, up 10 percentage points since August. Only 30% consider him a moderate, down 13 points. Among moderates, Carter now runs almost neck and neck with the President after leading him 51% to 35% in late August...
...Unfortunately for the President, one of the best campaigners in the family has been handicapped this fall. Betty Ford has tired easily since her mastectomy two years ago (she is in the final stages of receiving chemotherapy), and she suffers from painful osteoarthritis in the left side of her neck and shoulder. For a short period, she can still dazzle with one of the brightest smiles in American politics; but when she does venture onto the hustings, Ford's staffers are under strict instructions to see that she is not required to speak or stand for any period...
Adek Apfelbaum, a spokesman for PMC in Great Neck, New York, refused to comment yesterday on PCM's Essex County contract, but said he did not know of the commissioners' vote to cancel the contract...
Letelier died instantly, his legs blown off. Gobbets of flesh and blood-soaked upholstery were flung throughout the car's interior. A metal fragment slashed the neck of Letelier's front-seat companion, Ronni Karpen Moffitt, 25, severing her carotid artery. She drowned in her own blood. Her husband, Michael Moffitt, 25, who had been sitting in the back seat, somehow escaped almost uninjured...