Word: necks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clutches of adolescence. In a 1989 entry, Packwood described an office encounter with a female staff member. "'Would you like to dance?' She says, 'I'd love to.' So I slipped around the side of this gigantic desk and we danced. Boy, she wrapped her arms around my neck...I knew and she knew what we were both thinking... [She] and I made love, and has the most stunning figure. Big breasts." A 1992 entry disclosed: "I tried something. I just blew my hair. I didn't use any gel on it at all...It had just the right amount...
...overused in American ethnic politics, but in this case, the rhetoric of Deer and Russo was echoed by that of Senator John McCain. The Senator is a longtime supporter of Native Americans but also a card-carrying conservative Republican. Says he: "The Indians are taking it in the neck." This week representatives of more than 200 tribes will flood the nation's capital in a last-ditch attempt to influence the conference that will reconcile the House and Senate versions of the cuts. But unless they provoke a huge public outcry, most of the cuts will probably stand...
...suffered about 45 stab wounds to the face, neck, chest, arms and legs...
...enlivened by boundless curiosity, a wry sense of humor and a falcon-sharp eye for detail. At a hearing conducted by red-hunting Senator Joseph McCarthy, for example, Ellis observed: "McCarthy has the slim hips of an athlete, a thick trunk and shoulders like a buffalo. Almost lacking a neck, his huge head seems perched on his shoulders. His mouth is long and thin, like a knife-gash in a melon...
...sequence. Since embryos mature from the top down, explains biologist Cliff Tabin of the Harvard Medical School, a Hox gene that turns off a bit early, or stays on just a touch longer, can make a dramatic difference in the formation of the embryo. Swans, for example, have more neck vertebrae than chickens and thus longer necks. That is because the Hox genes responsible for making neck bones stay on longer in the unhatched cygnet than in the unhatched chick...