Word: necks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...divorce that apparently triggered a 1979 outburst by former Marine Charles Pettibone. He went to the Santa Rosa office of Congressman Don H. Clausen and was distressed to find him out. He held a knife at a security guard's neck for two hours until FBI officers got him to surrender. Attorney Steinberg got Pettibone acquitted on the argument that a sense of helplessness had catapulted him back to his Viet Nam days, rendering him effectively "unconscious...
...next thing I remember I was in the water, and I managed to get the door open. I started swimming to the surface, and I finally made it." Crew members of the ship heard his cries for help and pulled him out; his only injuries were a sprained neck and a gash over his right...
...London studios, where the interiors were shot, only three tunes. "I'd invite him to stand by the camera," says Kershner, "and he wouldn't. He'd say, 'It's your picture.' Then he'd stand way, way back somewhere, craning his neck." Kershner added his own touches, such as softer, more reflected lighting than the direct light Lucas employed in Star Wars. But he was always operating with Lucas' story, and he knew that Lucas, diffident as he was, was looking over his shoulder. If Lucas was in California, a videotape...
Soon after Lewis Carroll's Alice tumbles down the rabbit hole, she finds a little bottle with a label tied round its neck. Printed on it is a short, direct message: DRINK ME. Prudently, Alice looks to make sure there is no additional marking saying POISON, mindful that imbibing toxic liquids "is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later." Discovering none, she obeys the command-and shrinks to a height of ten inches...
...stopped using the words Great White Brotherhood because of the racist and sexist implications," Mata, clad in simple white cloth pants and shirt with a crystal cross around her neck and sandals on her feet, explains. "Then people began to freak on the word hierarchy. But that's how everything run, it is the world government. There are students and teachers, lower and higher teachers, the high masters, the gods...