Word: necks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shrapnel; next to him was the corpse of André Rivière, a French soldier of fortune who was one of Caamaño's top aides. When they carted him out, a young rebel dramatically poked a finger into Riviére's still-oozing neck wound and daubed the blood on his rifle trigger...
...plowed into his buttocks. From Colonel Caamaño's rebel positions in downtown Santo Domingo, a stream of rifle fire laced into the troops of the OAS Inter-American Peace Force. For half an hour it went on without a reply. Another paratrooper got it in the neck. At last, the order to shoot back came down from the IAPF commander, Brazil's General Hugo Panasco Alvim...
...know that if I could reproduce a head exactly as I see it," says the sculptor, "I would have everything else. If I could capture the ridge of the nos.e and the eyes, I would already be down to the neck. Then down to the feet is nothing. Under the feet you have the ground, and you can put anything you want to on the ground. But then again, I suppose, once you have the eye, you have everything, so you might as well stop. Anyway, I know with absolute, unshakable certainty that I can never succeed, even...
...York's Aqueduct track. Ridden by Johnny Sellers and third choice of the bettors at 5-2, Mrs. Ben Cohen's plucky colt, born with a slightly deformed rear leg, rallied from fourth place in the stretch to beat Preakness Winner Tom Rolfe by a narrow neck...
...ants that live without concealment in the fortresses of the fierce fire ants and, by some mysterious influence, make their hosts support them in idle luxury. Usually, a few of the parasites cling to the fire ant queen by means of specially adapted mandibles that fit around her neck without hurting her. When a worker comes to feed her with regurgitated food, the parasites flut ter their antennae, apparently convey ing a compelling message that makes the worker feed the parasites instead of the queen...