Word: necks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-old victim was attacked May 14 as she jogged about 500 yards from the entrance to the 265-acre park. The assailant ran up behind her and pressed a knife to her neck, and then dragged her into some bushes...
Penn State--which easily defended its title--was led by top-notch competitors like Patty Murnune, who loped to a hard-fought first place in the 1500 ahead of Harvard senior co-captain Mary Herlihy. Running neck-and-neck with Murnane throughout the race, Herlihy was barely beaten at the finish, despite running a personal best of 4:22. Freshman Mary-Jeanne Barrett also ran her best time ever, taking third with a time...
...years back, over on Tadmere Hill," recalls John Mach, patriarch of Pawlet, a town in southwest Vermont. "I was going along and I saw a hat in the road. I bent over and picked it up, and there was my old friend Henry Wheeler up to his neck in mud. So I said, 'Henry! Can I help you in any way?' And he said, 'No, that's all right, John. I've still got a horse under...
...election, that peace was "at hand" in Vietnam. Ronald Reagan, by sponsoring the Jackson-Warner "counter-freeze" resolution and pushing his START talks has shown his willingness to use this advantage. In addition, a belligerent move by the Soviets between now and 1984 could make anyone who stuck his neck out for negotiations in 1982 look like a naive appeaser. It wasn't so long ago that Afghanistan did exactly that to Jimmy Carter, ushering in that tough-talking California arms-racer we all know and love...
...CRITICS thought they had Derek Bok by the scruff of the neck. Picking at the few nuggets of potentially controversial material that speckle the president's monolithic annual report for 1980-81, faultfinders have proclaimed that in his discussion of the fate of student aid. Bok has given short shrift to those who don't make his academic grade--i.e., who aren't the stuff of the Ivy League. In his suggestion that students who do not achieve some "modest threshold" of college board scores be denied financial aid opportunities afforded those who transcend the cut-off mark...