Word: necks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...student who witnessed the arrest said that when she came upon the scene the suspect was already on the ground, and a woman police officer was sitting on Smith's neck. The student, who asked not to be identified, said that the officer was yelling obscenities at Smith and that the officers carried Smith by the neck and the back of his belt in to a police car. "It looked very brutal," she said...
...revelations were enough to curl the hair on the neck of the most seasoned nuclear engineer. Last April a reactor at the Federal Government's sprawling Savannah River Plant near Aiken, S.C., was shut down to upgrade safety systems -- with partially irradiated tritium still in its core. In August technicians, oblivious to the decaying radioactive material inside, tried to restart the reactor but were unable to keep it going. The next day they tried again. Ignoring procedure, they set off an abnormal jump in nuclear fission, usually a sign of imminent trouble. Workers ignored the warning, forcing plant officials...
...five foot talloxyacetalyne blow torch, So I went down the hallto Taber Fowley, Wholesalers and Jobbers.Cardboard boxes were hanging haphazardly off rowsof wooden shelves; a huge iron safe, with goldgilt, was piled up with ragged-edged ledgers.Behind the counter was a tiny old man with a bluev-neck sweater and tufts of silver hair in hisears; he was looking through a pince-nez at abracelet...
...hear the bird screeching?" crows bass Don Bagley as he juggles the 40-lb. silver trophy. "It makes the hair stand on your neck." Bagley, 48, exults, "It's taken me 27 years to get up here. It will take 27 to get down...
...wildest races of the week were the women's 400 free and the men's 4 X 200 freestyle relay. The first belonged to Janet Evans, teasingly called "Princess" by the swim-team staff because of her occasionally imperious ways. She developed a crick in her neck at training camp in Hawaii, doubtless, it was said, because of a pea under her mattress. In Seoul, she complained, the team had to walk (she pronounced the unfamiliar word with distaste) to practice. Biondi said, trying to sound as if he believed it, that Evans owes her success to her "little skinny...