Word: necks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Elizabeth II is a handsome woman of 5 ft. 3 in., brown-haired and blue-eyed, her head held royally on a swanlike neck. Her smooth skin, spring-in-England coloring and regal carriage give her subjects cause to call her beautiful. Her voice is clear-toned, with a still youthful ring; her movements are slow and assured. She wears her royal costumes and glittering gowns with majesty and grace; yet in tweeds and low-heeled shoes she gives out a no-nonsense warmth that can put any housewife in Winnipeg or Salisbury at ease...
...Perlmutter '59, of Lowell House and Glencoe, III., J. Rion Phillipson Jr. '59, of Kirkland House and Idaho Falls, Ida., David W. Preven '59, of Leverett House and Scranton, Pa., Robert C. Repetto '59, of Leverett House and Winchester, Mass., Michael W. Richter '59, of Kirkland House and Great Neck, N.Y., David D. Robbins '59, of Eliot House and Huntington Park, Cal., M. Richard Robinson Jr. '58, of Leverett House and Denver, Col., Richard Sandler '59, of Eliot House and Malden, Gino D. C. Segre '58, of Adams House and Peekskill, N.Y., and Lazarre S. Simckes '59, of Dudley House...
...mile Indianapolis auto race started taking its toll early. Defending Champion Jimmy Bryan quit after only two laps, when his Belond Special, hastily rebuilt after a disastrous engine freeze-up only one week before, developed clutch trouble. Mike Magill went to the hospital with neck injuries after hitting the Speedway wall on the 47th lap. Ray Crawford hit a wall on the 121st lap, suffered broken ribs. But through the pile-ups nothing bothered 38-year-old Veteran Rodger Ward of Los Angeles, a onetime fighter pilot who had never finished higher than eighth in eight previous "500" races...
...effects on the mind. The new tablet is a powerful muscle relaxant with some unusual painkilling qualities. Tried on more than 1,400 patients for almost two years, it has proved effective for many kinds of pain in the muscles and around joints-charley horse, tennis elbow, stiff neck, torticollis ("wryneck"), whiplash injury, muscular rheumatism, and muscle pain resulting from slipped disks. It also helps some (but by no means all) cases of cerebral palsy and Parkinsonism...
...with unestablished animals, e.g., pygmy rhinoceroses, aquatic elephants and small, spotted mountain lions. Tanganyika has its mngwas, which are generally described as giant cats, big as donkeys, and striped like a household tabby. Natives of many parts of Africa believe in a 30-ft., dragonlike reptile with a long neck, that lives in swamps as did the long-extinct brontosaurus. Heuvelmans thinks it may be the strange, scaly creature shown in bas-relief on the Ishtar Gate of ancient Babylon...