Word: necks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bill had long planned to spirit her away. Though she did not know him, he knew her name. The caves where they hid had been stocked with cans of corn and baked beans, which he shared with her. At night when he slept, Bicycle Bill chained her by her neck to a tree, and a couple of times tugged her along by a chain leash. But he did not physically injure her. When after several days Peggy's brown suede shoes wore out, he wrapped her feet in old newspapers and gave her a pair of his overshoes...
...strange course through the steeplechase of time. At first, he made his man and horse strain as one being toward a high point of joy. Then, as the years passed, he began portraying man in his canvases and sculptures as tumbling, unseated and falling, and the horse splayed, with neck stretched and hooves sprawled. "My equestrian figures," says Marini of his later work, "are symbols of the anguish I feel when I survey contemporary events. Man has become destructive, acquiring the atomic bomb, becoming fossilized. It is no longer man who commands, but man who has been commanded...
...freshman lightweights had a neck-and-neck race for the first 1,000 meters, holding leads which covered around half a deck over Penn and Cornell. In the next 500 meters, stroking a precise 34, the Crimson went out ahead by a full length and held it against hapless challenges by Penn and Cornell...
...Nose. With win bets only allowed, Graustark broke in front and flashed to a six-length lead. Everyone expected that to be it. Jockey Braulio Baeza eased up, and suddenly from dead last, there came Willie Shoemaker on Abe's Hope. The horses were neck and neck at the top of the stretch-then Abe's Hope drew out to a half-length lead. Baeza went to the whip, and Graustark came on hard. But not hard enough. Abe's Hope won by a nose...
Steve Bergman, playing fourth for the Crimson, won Harvard's only other point. Two holes up with two to play, he lost the 17th, and went to the last hole needing only a tie to win his match. With his opponent breathing down his neck. Bergman smacked a 7-iron four feet from the stick and snatched a two-up victory...