Word: necks
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...Band-Aids on my heels. I rose, tentatively putting weight on each foot to see if the Band-Aids would ease my transition from flip-flops. As I stood and walked a few test yards, I felt the eyes of passersby focus on, well, my behind. I craned my neck to look back there, only to find that my makeshift first aid station had been conveniently located upon a dumping ground for the city’s avian members...
...hands for 30 solid seconds, and Elisa says, “Hola, Guillermo. Cómo está?” At this, he flings out his arms wildly and grins at her, waiting, expectant, almost cartoonish in his eagerness. She acquiesces, and he rockets his arms around her neck and clings to her for two minutes. She patiently pats him on the back as they hug and rock back and forth, back and forth, surreal in the rain and in the flashing headlights of passing cars. After she’s had enough, Elisa firmly says...
...white finally appeared, upheaval came over the entire audience. As Benedict began weaving his way through the crowds in his unshielded Pope-mobile, everyone leapt atop his own chair, and shouts of “Papa!” filled the arena. I, too, craned my neck to see the face of Rome’s infallible pontiff...
...alienate northern conservatives and lose the border slave states of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri. And if the border states were lost, he believed, all was lost. Douglass had no sympathy for this reasoning. The slaveholders of the border states, he said, "have been the mill-stone about the neck of the Government, and their so-called loyalty" prevented the Union from using all its resources. He knew that 4 million slaves, plus another half million free blacks, amounted to about 20% of the North's population and represented a potent source of power...
This year alone, more than 100,000 Americans will undergo carotid endarterectomy, a Roto-Rooter-like procedure designed to scoop fatty blockages from the carotid artery in the neck. The operation is intended to reduce the chance of stroke by allowing blood to flow more freely through the carotid to the brain. There is just one problem, bluntly stated last week at an American Heart Association meeting by Dr. Mark Dyken, chief of neurology at Indiana University: "No careful study has ever shown any conclusive benefit." Of more concern, according to a survey conducted by Dyken and Statistician Robert Pokras...