Word: necked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group of teen-agers kicking a soccer ball around an empty lot discovered the nude, mutilated body of Brigitte Dewèvre, a 16-year-old schoolgirl whose father is a miner. The investigation began routinely enough, with police looking for a "tall, strongly built man wearing a turtle neck" who had been seen with the girl the day before she died. But then one witness claimed that she had seen a wealthy Bruay notary (in France, a kind of real-estate lawyer) named Pierre Leroy parking his car near the empty lot at approximately the time police believe Brigitte...
...three men first robbed Robert Blattner '74 and Leslie Siefert '75 near Leverett House; Blattner received minor lacerations on his neck from a knife one of the men carried...
Often, though, his hours on the podium are indeed a struggle-in unexpected ways. The years of conducting with arms carried high in tension, or head held tilted back to watch his performers on operatic nights, have produced extensive muscle damage to Solti's shoulders and neck. If he sometimes does a spectacular 180° leap from the violins way off on the left to the double basses on the right, it is because he has to. "I can not move my head more than a few inches to the left or right without turning my body," he says...
...Neck and Neck...
...neck and neck down to the finish but the Tigers refused to die and it was Harvard in second place for the first time in six seasons with Yale a distant third seven lengths back...