Word: necks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...avid collector since the age of seven--she grew up in Florida surrounded by insects--Bowers still goes out into the fields of Western Massachusetts once or twice a week to collect checkerspots. "These guys are a real pain in the neck," she says, pointing affectionately to the orange and black striped furry caterpillars stacked in plates in her lab. Checkerspots take a full year to mature from the larval stage to the butterfly stage, and Bowers must collect specimens every week or so in order to follow the insects throughout their life cycle...
About 80% of the skin cancers caused by the sun are basal-cell carcinoma. Usually occurring on the head or neck, they are the most common and curable form of cancer in the U.S. Nancy Reagan was one of 400,000 Americans treated for this disease last year; she has more recently had several spots of keratosis removed from her face to prevent a recurrence. Skin cancers that appear elsewhere on the body are usually squamous-cell carcinoma, also easily cured by surgery...
...sister Ann's children a few years ago, but they have since been returned to George, a legacy perhaps for his own daughter. When he was ten or so, TV replaced the comics, and he would spend Saturday mornings watching cartoons, his black cat Dinky draped round his neck...
Aside from the severity of his case, Stakes adds, tonight's patient is typical of apnea sufferers. He is in late middle age, moderately obese, with a short neck, and male. Most apnea victims are, and their wives bring them in to this clinic or others like it complaining that while their spouse has always snored, recently they have noticed that he seems to stop breathing...
Eddie Delahoussaye, only the fourth jockey ever to ride back-to-back Kentucky Derby winners, patted Sunny's Halo's neck just as he had Gato del Sol's last year: two terrific horses. Ten years ago exactly, Secretariat spoiled horses for people. When he romped around the track, the trees swayed. A showy chestnut with three white stockings, he made it necessary to reissue Writer Joe Palmer's perfect description of Man o' War: "As near to a living flame as horses ever get." Actually, Secretariat came to the Kentucky Derby off a defeat...