Word: necked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even trumped Dukakis' strongest cards--competent management and the Massachusetts Miracle--by throwing mouthfuls of statistics at the public implying that the Bay State is not half the utopia its Governor and would-be-President would have us believe. Bush supporters point to polls showing the two candidates running neck and neck...
...David Young was left paralyzed when he ran his 1965 Chevy Impala into a tree and broke his neck. In the hospital he learned to drive an electric wheelchair and to type using a mouth stick. But he was 27 and a graduate student at the University of Colorado before he got his IBM PC. "It had become painfully obvious that I could no longer match my peers simply by being bright," he recalls. "The computer opened all sorts of doors for me." Now Young is earning a Ph.D. in biology, working as a laboratory consultant and writing more than...
This year's state redistricting gave Graham's 28th Middlesex County district a plausible shape, to replace something that looked on the map like a lizard with a broken neck. It no longer includes the Radcliffe Quad, but it does contain the river houses in Ward...
...past. As three generations of Bidens alight -- his mother, father, sister, wife and two of his three children -- the Senator is swamped by friends and the curious, all straining to get a glimpse of the man who vanished from sight seven months ago. In a blazer and an open-neck shirt that reveals a tiny scar, he looks like the healthiest person here, trim, energetic and tan. He makes his way to a picnic bench, where he waits his turn to speak at what he calls the "most important event in my public life...
...sermon, his voice cracking with emotion through line after line, at times shifting to an eerie falsetto high above the drone of his congregation. It's part Motown, part a century or two of brutal noonday toil, and it will raise the hairs on the back of your neck...