Word: necks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sleep five nights in a row with rotting corpses." Is he afraid of dying? "Of course not," he says. "If I were, I wouldn't be in the army." While most of his comrades carry lucky charms, Mohammed wears only an empty 9-mm shell casing around his neck. He is of a breed of soldier who knows nothing in life except battle, hunger, pain, cold and thirst. He and his friends say they are determined to die in the saddle, "like true Goran...
...Reagan is reelected, he's got nothing to lose. If a Democrat becomes President, he sure doesn't want the deficit albatross around his neck when he runs again four years later." For once, tax increases, if wrapped in tax reform, could be good politics...
...dour Swedish ventriloquist-that was what Candice Bergen made the act work so well-and he was already a star when Candy was tiny. She remembers that her father would put her on one of his knees, with Charlie sitting on the other, and squeeze the back of her neck, imitating the way he worked Charlie's mouth. She would open and close her own mouth without speaking, and her father would improvise a dialogue, talking first in Charlie's voice and then in a little-girl voice...
...thirsty cottonwoods (planted there a century ago by Army officers trying to please their wives) that indicate water, in this case the Rio Grande. And there, by a washed-out footbridge, a bandanna round his forehead and a bolo tie, secured by a silver-and-turquoise slide, round his neck, stands Domingo Atencio, the beginning of this tale...
...makeup produces an extreme variety. Bilheimer was shocked to find that the child's cholesterol was at nearly nine times the normal level for someone her age. It had already taken a toll on her blood vessels, as the doctor learned when he held a stethoscope to her neck and legs. There, instead of silence, he heard the ominous, whooshing sound of blood struggling to get through blocked arteries...