Word: necks
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...have always found him to be a real pain in the neck," Capuano quipped. "We'll give you whatever you want, just to shut you up," he added...
...With McCain and Bush running neck-and-neck in the Arizona polls, it was left to the other four candidates to divide the also-ran spoils - Steve Forbes, Gary Bauer and Alan Keyes by trumpeting their conservative credentials, and Orrin Hatch by emphasizing his experience. Clearly, though, some pollster has told all the Republican hopefuls that congeniality is the flavor of the month, and their affability was at times almost comical - Forbes told Bush to call him "Steve," McCain told the Texas governor to call him "John," then later complained of not knowing whether to call Bush "George...
...leave, I fell down and begged him for a scrap of forgiveness, and he said, 'Oh, son, I forgive you surely--I've forgiven Judas this far in advance. But you can't work with me after today; the millstone of what you've done is around your neck, and the two of us are helpless to move...
...used to have to cut off the neck, cut off the legs. Those days are gone, thank God," Moreau says, adding that all he has to do now is "bag it, weigh it, and hand it to the customer...
MINITEL MINI-STROKE A French psychiatrist became temporarily blind in one eye and could barely speak--classic signs of a mini-stroke--after talking on the phone for an hour with the receiver tucked between his head and neck. Physicians believe the torqued position tore a neck artery that supplies blood to the brain. It's only one case, but the rest of us can learn from it. If you cradle the receiver, be sure to switch sides or transfer it to your hand from time to time. Better yet, try a headset...