Word: necks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HOSPITALIZED. Teddy Pendergrass, 31, rhythm-and-blues singer whose gospel-flavored ballads and sexy disco records have sold in the millions (Life Is a Song Worth Singing, The More I Get the More I Want): with severe neck injuries; in Philadelphia. Pendergrass, injured when he lost control of his Rolls-Royce and smashed into two trees, suffered partial paralysis...
...done his ground-breaking research despite a tremendous handicap. For the last 20 years the physicist has suffered from Lou Gehrig's disease, a terminal degenerative illness of the nerves and muscles. Now, at 40, Hawking remains confined to an electrically controlled wheelchair and has difficulty holding his neck up when he speaks. Even then his voice barely escapes--it comes out sometimes as a guttural moan--and Hawking generally travels with an interpreter...
...been a stalwart of the anti-Soviet left, was among those who stood up for Sontag after her Solidarity speech. "I don't see how calling [the situation in Poland] 'fascism' helps anyone to understand it," wrote McCarthy. "Nevertheless, I am for Susan for sticking her neck out and using what to her audience was evidently a dirty word for what is a dirty thing...
...always stick my neck out a lot, "Oomen said. Many corporation officials were hesitant to build the facility with the untested rolling turf, but Oomen insisted that it would be the best and most economical, and he recently sold his idea for the turf-rolling system to Monsanto Corporation...
...Village Voice Columnist Alexander Cockburn. He was incredulous at what Jones espied through binoculars one dark night during a jungle skirmish. Jones wrote: "On the summit of a distant hillside, I saw a figure that made me catch my breath: a pudgy Cambodian, with field glasses hanging from his neck. The eyes in his head looked dead and stony. I could not make him out in any detail, but I had seen enough pictures of the supreme leader to convince me, at that precise second, that I was staring at Pol Pot." Cracked Cockburn of this unlikely night vision: "Jones...