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Word: necks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wounded Grenadians and Cubans. The U.S. wounded were also given first aid. But morphine to relieve pain was running low. An outdoor basketball court was turned into a helicopter pad to lift the wounded to the Guam or to hospital facilities elsewhere. Recalled Student Paula Prezioso of Great Neck, N.Y.: "One minute we'd be under a desk, the next up looking for a Coke, the next treating some Cuban sniper. Then back under a desk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: D-Day in Grenada | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

After being treated by team doctors, Peeters was wheeled on a stretcher off the ice to the dressing room where he regained consciousness. The doctors ordered him to nearby Massachusetts General Hospital for overnight observation for possible head and neck injuries...

Author: By From WIRE Reports, | Title: Peeters Injured in Bruins' 9-5 Win | 11/4/1983 | See Source »

...Great Neck, N Y natives formed their first company, Software Innovations, in 1980. After building up a mailing list of more than 3,000 computer owners, they decied to expand To raise money, they sold shares in the firm to teachers and friends, and borrowed funds from their families...

Author: By Kathrine M. Peterson, | Title: Two Freshman Entrepreneurs Put Computer Careers on Hold | 10/29/1983 | See Source »

According to Olivas, the five khaki-uniformed guards who met Aquino aboard China Airlines Flight 811 were unarmed. As Aquino stepped off the plane, escorted by the guards, a single fatal bullet entered the nape of his neck and passed in a downward path through his chin. Seconds later, soldiers gunned down Rolando Galman, who, Olivas contended, had "suddenly darted toward [Aquino] and shot him from behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: Test of Wills | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

...clutching the breast that once fed me ... it then mingled the sweet milk with curds of blood." John Ruskin has a serpent nightmare: "It rose up like a Cobra-with horrible round eyes and had woman's, or at least Medusa's, breasts. [It] fastened on my neck." The origins of tabloid astrology can be traced to the predictions of Astrampsychus (circa A.D. 350): "Gladness of mind shows that you will live abroad"; and Napoleon 's Book of Fate (circa 1860): "For a young woman to dream that she is embraced by a gorilla means that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bedtime Stories | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

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