Word: necked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...support of public health and environmental issues. Dole has his hands full just trying to wrench himself clear of his party. After President Ford pardoned Nixon and announced his amnesty program, Dole quipped that he had received "about all the help from President Ford that I can stand." Neck and neck...
...adapter, not an original composer. He snuggles into history like a time traveler, singing in a husky, good-natured voice that carefully preserves a ragged edge. But it is his w12ardry with a bottleneck that gives him a tangible link with the old Delta bluesmen. Cooder applies the neck of a vinegar bottle to his Martin D45 guitar and makes the music ring, giving the notes a natural resonance in which you can almost hear the past...
Speaking from her wheelchair, Pat Hemenway, 46, quietly described to Washington State legislators what had happened to her. While she was walking near the University of Washington campus one day in 1972, two young muggers accosted her. For no apparent reason, one suddenly shot her in the neck, grabbed her purse and left her bleeding-and permanently paralyzed. Obviously moved by her story, the lawmakers voted to pass a new kind of law that would provide state funds to ease the plight of Mrs. Hemenway and hundreds of others like...
Typically the new laws provide only for medical costs and income loss resulting from an injury. Almost any crime-related injury is included. When a gun-toting bank robber in California ordered everyone to "Move!" Customer Linnia Victorine slipped on a carpet and badly sprained her neck; she was awarded $5,000. Payments have ranged from a few dollars to $350,000 for a series of operations on a four-year-old New York boy; acid had been thrown in the child's face by a deranged neighbor...
...fioriture, whistling-high E-flats, and howling farce. Her windup salute, which starts somewhere near her right thigh and then circles deliciously upward, has to be seen to be believed. So does the way she gives her dancing master a knee in the chin, or wraps him around her neck while learning to do the quadrille...