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Word: necks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lynch has a Boy Scout's cherubic face and nice manners. His conversation is filled with wholesome jargon like "thrilling" and "cool." But eccentricities lurk just beneath the surface. He always keeps his shirt collar buttoned to the top because "I have this thing about my neck. It's just an eerie kind of feeling about my collarbone." For seven years he drank milkshakes every day at a Bob's Big Boy in Los Angeles. "I'd have coffee, sometimes six cups, along with the shake, and I'd have sugar in my coffee," he says. "By then I would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Like Nothing On Earth | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

Babyland -- that's what the gravedigger called it. Then he pointed to the far side of Houston's Hollywood Cemetery, where a sea of tombstones gives way to a grassy hillside. A dainty marble cherub, its head severed at the neck by vandals, guards the spot. Surrounding the lifeless angel are scores of infants' graves, most with modest plaques, one raising a silent protest: SO SMALL, SO SWEET, SO SOON...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Houston, Texas So Small, So Sweet, So Soon | 3/26/1990 | See Source »

...Harvard sophomore stayed neck-and-neck with his Hawkeye opponent. Each competitor held serve for the first 11 games of the fierce final frame. Then Zimmerman took charge...

Author: By Daniel L. Jacobowitz, | Title: Netmen Give Hawkeyes a Black Eye, 8-1 | 3/23/1990 | See Source »

...play is awful. An optimistic viewer may be able to extract some cheap laughs from the absurdities, of course. There is a misunderstanding involving a headless body, for example, which had this particular audience in stitches. Especially since the body is brought on stage, dripping gore from the severed neck...

Author: By Ashwini Sukthankar, | Title: Huntington Shreds Shakespeare's Cymbeline | 3/20/1990 | See Source »

...grey elephant costume with campaign bumper stickers plastered over his ears, danced in front of a local TV camera crew, while Carol McPherson, a pro-choice delegate from the town of Spencer, criss-crossed the convention hall with a multi-colored stuffed elephant dangling from her neck. Committed to Weld, she handed out buttons and posted "Republicans for Choice" signs in the hall...

Author: By Erik M. Weitzman, | Title: GOP Takes Center Ring at Convention Circus | 3/13/1990 | See Source »

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