Word: necks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thinking, for instance, of an actor who showed up wearing a shiny silver garment that peeked out from what looked like the uniform of a cabin boy on an ocean liner. Or one who combined an open-neck shirt of the sort worn by Coca-Cola deliverymen with what appeared to be a tuxedo jacket owned by a much larger man in 1938. In this country, fear of being ridiculed by high school buddies is about the only governor we have left on the behavior of the celebrated; around Oscar night every year, I feel even that slipping away...
...would never be such a burden, in fact thought he might become a doctor himself, for the security. But that turned out to be a hard promise to keep. The wound he suffered in Italy three weeks before the end of the war left him immobilized below the neck. When they eventually shipped him home to die, Cramer writes, "Bina had to pick eight cigarette butts out of his plaster cast. She told her sisters: they'd used her boy for an ashtray on the train...
...Southern Baptist, the elder Farmer was shocked by the affection members showed to one another, "hugging my neck," he said...
...Susquehanna plant, began to analyze deficiencies in spent-fuel cooling systems. They realized that a problem had been sneaking up on the industry: half a dozen serious accidents at different plants had caused some water to drain from the pools. In the worst of them, at Northeast's Haddam Neck plant in 1984, a seal failure caused 200,000 gal. to drain in just 20 min. from a water channel next to the fuel pool. If the gate between the channel and the pool had been open, the pool could have drained, exposing the rods and causing a meltdown. Says...
...brown bear touches you, the book says, "curl up in a ball, protecting your stomach and neck, and play dead. If the attack is prolonged, however, change tactics and fight back vigorously. If it is a black bear, do not play dead at all; fight back...