Word: necks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Schoolwork entered my mind once in a while, but I was just too burnt out. My high school required four or five years of just about everything, and I was determined to take a break from the neck-breaking cramming I had suffered throughout those four years. I can't even remember some of the courses I took freshman year, but most were pretty good. And most of them required at least a dozen books. Of course, only the foolish and the lonely read everything, but at least I bought everything the Coop had to offer...
...eight months, Charles Griffith, 25, a theater projectionist, kept a vigil in a special-care ward of Miami Children's Hospital at the bedside of his comatose daughter Joy, 3. Injured last October when her neck became wedged in the footrest of a reclining chair, Joy suffered irreversible brain damage. Two weeks ago, after an evening visit with his daughter, Griffith fired two .32- cal. bullets into the child's heart, killing her. Griffith, who faces a first- degree murder charge, said last week, "I didn't want to see her hurt anymore. She couldn't eat, she couldn...
...political and military force, but Amal leaders refused the request. After announcing their demands, the hijackers released 19 women and children via a yellow escape chute lowered from the forward door. One freed hostage, Irma Garza of Laredo, Texas, said that the terrorists had shot one man in the neck. Passengers were unnerved by the behavior of the hijackers. "They were hysterical, they were screaming," said Patricia Weber of Albuquerque...
...Today, people wear a shirt and jeans, and; never went to class without a neck tie," Downes adds...
Overall, Sussman says that "It's really no harder to transfer here than it is to transfer to any other comparable school. It's a pain in the neck to transfer, but I don't think Harvard makes it particularly difficult...