Word: necks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...victims had been recovered. Their bodies were laid amid the seaweed on the private beach. Many of the dead had been badly battered and their clothes shredded by the pounding surf. One woman clutched a fist ful of sand. A man had his shirt twisted around his neck. Among the meager belongings washed up on the beach: a copy of the New Testament, wrapped in plastic to protect it from the water. It was the worst such accident since some 50,000 illegal immigrants from the poverty-stricken Caribbean nation began arriving on U.S. shores ten years...
...Marsh uncovered Bronto's remains in a quarry in Como Bluff, Wyo. The bones were headless, as all Brontosaurus skeletons ever found have been, because of fragile connections between head and neck. Marsh did what paleontologists often do when they are missing pieces in a fossil puzzle: he capped the reassembled beast with skull fragments found elsewhere/Unfortunately, they came from another long-necked dinosaur called Camarasaurus. At least partly because of Marsh's prestige, his flat-nosed monster became the model for other museums as well as Brontosaurus representations in books, comic strips, even advertisements...
...CHUBB squeezed into the same pair of pants and feigned siamese twins, while midfielder MERRY ANN MOORE padded an over-sized pair of jeans and went as "Big Buns." Sweeper DEB FIELD donned some fatigues for the "G.I.Deb" look, while halfback LAURA MAYER combined red socks, a red turtle-neck, and green hospital pants to instill some holiday spirit as a Christmas Tree. Not outdone by his charges, head coach BOB SCALISE painted his face white...
Using a high-energy X-ray beam, researchers at Stanford administered a total of 2,000 rads of radiation (less than half the dosage for Hodgkin's disease) to the lymph nodes of the neck, chest, abdomen, thymus gland and spleen. Patients were treated five days a week for five weeks. Within a month, all the patients started to improve; six months after the irradiation, disagreeable symptoms such as morning stiffness, pain and swelling within the joints were all significantly reduced...
...fall on his shoulder. He could smell her hair, and his throat contracted, as though he were going to cry. For the first time in his short battered life he was happy. His grip on her tightened, he pushed his cheek against hers. She buried her face in his neck...