Word: necked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...safety from the rear of the train. The kidnapers stood firm. On the third day of the siege, after a fruitless round of negotiations, another passenger, wearing a yellow shirt and a red tie, was brought to a door of the train. He was shot fatally in the neck and flung onto the railroad bed. Soldiers standing a few hundred yards away openly wept at the cruel sight...
...Japanese Zen Buddhist monastery (TIME, Feb. 11,1974). Now he mixes his Western upbringing and Eastern training to emerge as, of all things, a superlative mystery writer. This first novel starts in standard fashion: a man is found hanged, slowly turning on the rope, because "bodies suspended by the neck are never quite still." What follows is hardly conventional...
...Benjamin Franklin, 23 plaques of Robert Louis Stevenson, 20 lions crushing 20 serpents--they all seem redundant, somehow. They are not; each sculpture is in some way different from its partner. But they differ in very subtle ways--in the lie of the mane on the lion's neck, in the direction Franklin happens to be looking. Jeanne Wasserman and the staff of the Fogg set up this exhibit to explore these changes; a very well-trained eye is necessary to find them...
...Crimson also took the top two spots in the 200 IM. 200 butterfly, and 200 breaststroke. Kevin O'Connell and Brent Haywood swam neck and neck to take first and second in the IM. O'Connell finished a scant .06 second in front of Haywood...
Much as I love my wife, the $118,335,000 for Sakowitz of Houston's diamond-filled "up to the neck" bathtub [Nov. 17] is a little beyond my means this Christmas. Anybody offering an "up to the first knuckle" finger bowl for the less fortunate...