Word: necked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...After a neck-wrenching look at Hystar, a visitor might do well to take the SkyTrain, a monorail actually, to the main part of Expo back across town on a 173-acre site along a harbor inlet. Most people probably will feel duty bound to see the pavilions of the Big Three, the U.S., the Soviet Union and China. The bad news is they are far apart from one another, and the lines in front are among the longest; the worse news is that they all seem to have signed a big-power pact to be boring...
...year, $66.3 million restoration, a lady needs a face-lifting. Well, maybe it was too much to expect the refurbished copper statue to shine like a newly minted penny at its rededication on July 4. Even so, why have parts of the statue's left cheek, left neck and torch arm developed what the New York Daily News last week delicately dubbed a skin problem? The dark spots, it turns out, are acid stains, caused by pollutants that began eating away at the statue's protective patina in the 1960s and cannot be removed without endangering the delicate copper sheath...
...Wallace made his unusual entrance because he had no other way of getting on stage. A rugby accident in high school left him paralyzed from the neck down and dependent on a wheelchair to get around. Without a special elevator, Wallace needed his friends to hoist him onto the stage. At his request, the University began plans to install a lift, but Wallace was "fed up" waiting for it and quit the group before it was built...
...Senators, Pete Domenici, a third-term New Mexico Republican, is about as homespun as they come. While many of his smooth, well-tailored colleagues are chauffeured to the Capitol, the rumpled Domenici, 53, can sometimes be spotted commuting on Washington's metro, a loose tie draped from his neck, his furrowed brow giving him a look of perpetual worry befitting a hardworking father of eight...
...angered her subordinates by limiting smoking on the job. Each precinct is allowed only one office and one squad car in which smoking is permitted. Harrington has reprimanded officers who abuse citizens. Last year she banned the use of the carotid ("sleeper") hold after a Portland policeman used the neck grip and inadvertently killed a black security guard who had no criminal record. Two officers responded to the ban by selling T shirts inscribed DON'T CHOKE 'EM. SMOKE 'EM. Harrington had the officers fired, but they were reinstated by an arbitrator...