Word: necked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carol notes that 15 of the 18 came from public schools, while the other three went to parochial schools, with not one real "preppy" in the group. She points to the male suite on the first floor as an example. "A Mennonite from Indiana, a Jewish kid from Great Neck with rabbinical aspirations, a shiny kid from Vermont just amazed by the city, and a Mexican-American from California. They seemed to me a kind of testimony to Harvard's conception of diversity." Kathy, who has taken three semesters off, adds, "we just didn't have many people...
...fire fighters scramble to uncoil hose lines and position aerial platforms, a slight figure tightly wrapped in a flame-resistant fire fighter's coat steps carefully through the debris in open-toed shoes. Above the roar of high-pressure pumps, she quizzes battalion commanders and cranes her neck to assess the fire fighters' progress. Finally satisfied that the damage will be contained, Mayor Dianne Feinstein heads back...
...foundered. One lost 30 men out of 32 aboard. Others took shellbursts and a steady pinging of bullets against the steel sides. Still others collided with the jagged obstacles and barbed wire that the Germans had embedded along the beach. The heavily burdened invaders had to scramble out into neck-deep water, or worse. A number of amphibious craft loaded with artillery turned back. Armored units had an even harder time. Their Sherman DD tanks were outfitted with devices that were supposed to keep them afloat while they lurched ashore, but of the first 32 launched, 27 sank...
...grisly deaths. In one notorious incident, Party Member Liu Wenxue enlisted a self-styled witch to exorcise his wife, who had just received hospital treatment for heart disease. The witch proceeded to puncture the woman's nose with a knife, string her up to the ceiling and jerk her neck with a whip. Four days later, the patient died. Liu received only a mild official reprimand...
Mike might have kept it, had he been able to resist the juicy Instant Bargains offered to him between rounds. Mike squandered his lead on a trip to Las Vegas and he entered the final round neck and neck with Warren...