Word: necks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wasn't out in front for long, though. Teammate Schuler really poured it on at the end and moved from fourth place to second in less than a quarter of a lap. As they came down the stretch, Schuler and Weber were running neck and neck, but as the finish line drew closer, Schuler outkicked Weber and took first place with a time...
...just finished up the football season, pulled out a come-from-behind victory in the 500. It wasn't until the final stretch that Murrer took the lead. With B.C. harrier Fred Kirk leading the pack, Murrer poured it on and came from fifth place to first, finishing neck and neck with Kirk, turning in a time of 1:05.4. Freshman Steve Ezeji-Okoye came in third at a 1:06.3 clip...
...North Carolina prison, by taking an overdose of painkillers. In the stockade at Fort Meade, Md., last week, Hinckley jammed the lock to his cell with a piece of cracker-box cardboard. Then he stood on a chair, knotted one sleeve of an Army field jacket around his neck and the other to an iron window bar and, as U.S. marshals shouted at him and struggled vainly to open the door, stepped off the chair. Hinckley, 26, hung for several minutes before a frantic marshal could climb an exterior wall and reach through a window to cut him loose from...
...guest spot on Phil Donahue's show. During the two-hour special, to be aired next year, she is arrested, hauled off to the Bastille, kidnaped, ravished and accused of being a witch. In the gallows scene Lesley-Anne was forced to stand with a noose around her neck and her hands tied behind her back while she balanced atop a two-foot-high stool on a platform 15 feet above the ground. All this while Quasimodo, the hunchback bell ringer, played by Anthony Hopkins, 43, clumsily scrambled about trying to free her. "Anthony is no stunt man," says...
...Iowa department of transportation estimates that in one year their law cut the volume of container trash by 64%. Connecticut officials are just as enthusiastic. "It's wonderful," said Rocky Neck State Park Manager Albert Millane. "Normally this time of year, we'd find thousands and thousands of bottles after the weekends. Now, if we find 20 bottles a day, we're lucky." Maine officials estimate that they have saved $100,000 a year in cleanup costs since their law took effect. Other states report similar savings...