Word: necks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...murder followed what is by now a pattern: the victim, usually walking alone, accepts a ride and disappears. Her body is found several days later. All the girls were brunette Caucasians, and all were murdered in rainy weather. Six of the seven were either strangled, stabbed in the neck or left with something twisted around their necks. The exact official causes of death: two by gunshot, two by strangulation, two by stab wounds and one by skull fracture...
...station house, his silence allowed time for both honest questions and scurrilous gossip to swirl around his reputation and his future. Only once did the Senator leave the harried seclusion of the Kennedy compound at Hyannisport?when he flew to the funeral at Plymouth, Pa., still wearing a neck brace he received after the accident...
Madame Carmirelli attacked the first movement of the sonata at break-neck speed, despite the fact tat in Bach's time, both tempo and dynamics were much less varied than they have been since. Then, the slow movements and thew allegros more closely resembed each other in speed. In dynamics, Bach conceived of his works as built of solid, steady blocks of sound. Madame Carmirelli constantly shifted from pianist to forte and from slow to fast. It is true Bach wrote the sonatas as little "soul-states" as Schweitzer says, but he writes with polyphone rather than her extremes...
Michael Collins, 38, owes his couch on the moonship to a bout of bad health. He was to have been a member of the Apollo 8 crew, which made man's first orbits around the moon last Christmas. A paralyzing bone spur in the neck sent Collins to the hospital in June 1968 for a risky operation, however, and Bill Anders took his place. The surgery was a complete success, and Collins was back on full flight status by last November. It was much too late for him to resume his original place with the Apollo 8 crew?...
Today, from Solway Firth to the North Sea, through places with amiable country names like Milking Gap, Castle Nick, Twice Brewed, Bogle Hole and Lodhams Slack, the overgrown and tumbled remains of the wall still snake across the neck of Britain. For generations, antiquaries have poked at it and puzzled over it as antiquaries will, especially if they are British. The latest is David Divine, a military correspondent for the London Sunday Times, who prefers strategy to stones. He has wrung from the grassy ruins evidence to show how Domitian's mistake, and the very existence of the wall...