Word: necks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week the girl was rescued from a small underground chamber where Esposito had kept her hidden for 16 days. Most of that time, Katie was kept in a coffinlike loft, 2 ft. by 3 ft., that contained a mattress, pillows and a television; often, she was chained by the neck. Every day Esposito brought his prisoner meals. Police suspect that sometimes he stayed to fondle her.(See the top 25 crimes of the century...
George Bush put the Medal of Freedom around Reagan's neck ("Millions thank God today that you were in the White House"). Reagan is the only President to receive the medal in his lifetime. He was plainly older, hair dominantly gray. But the message was the same: "In America every day is a new beginning, and every sunset is merely the latest milestone for a voyage that never ends." And the humor that carried him through so much adversity was still handy: "This marks the 200th anniversary of the laying of the cornerstone of the White House...
...crazy and had no friends that were real friends. He said I needed him and he would take care of me." She says his care included threats with a knife, punches, a kick to the stomach that caused a hemorrhage. Navy doctors treated her for injuries to her neck and arm. "He'd slam me up against doors. He gave me black eyes, bruises. Winter and summer, I'd go to work like a Puritan, with long sleeves. Afterward he'd soothe me, and I'd think, He's a good man. What did I do wrong...
...often see no way to escape an assault without using a weapon and the element of surprise -- arguing, in essence, that their best hope of self-defense was a pre-emptive strike. "Morally and legally a woman should not be expected to wait until his hands are around her neck," argues Los Angeles defense attorney Leslie Abramson. "Say a husband says, 'When I get up tomorrow morning, I'm going to beat the living daylights out of you,' " says Joshua Dressler, a law professor at Wayne State University who specializes in criminal procedures. "If you use the word imminent...
SINCE THE NIGHT HE WAS SHOT IN THE back, Gary has come to know a great many doctors. The surgeons could not get all the pieces of the bullet out of his spine. The neurologists could not reverse the paralysis, which locked his body in place from the neck down. The pain specialists, chiropractors and acupuncturists could not relieve the agony. If you were to go into the intensive-care unit and take the sickest patient you could find who was dying, that was my condition. Anything that could go wrong did. I was in constant pain most...