Word: spines
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...finds his target deep within the stacks, and approaches stealthily. He places his hand on the spine of his prey and pulls out his knife. The blade flashes under the dim light as the victim screams...
...first time, I felt a pang of nostalgia for my years as a manager of Belmont boys' basketball. All of the memories that I have related washed across me suddenly and a chill went up and down my spine. I had always known that we had a great run those couple of years, but I never realized how important it had all been to me. Standing there with Asa, seeing him in Dartmouth Green and not Belmont Blue and Maroon, the pieces began to fall into place...
...strongmen who terrorized the area faded away like zombies in the night, leaving behind a brutalized population. In Mirebalais, the prodemocracy deputy mayor was beheaded and his body thrown into a nearby river. At the prison in Les Cayes, inmates were treated so abominably that one man's spine was visible through the lesions on his back...
...embryos would not be allowed to develop for more than 14 days, which is the standard in countries that allow such research. Under no circumstance would experiments on embryos be allowed after the 20th day, when the tube of cells that is destined to become the brain and spine closes...
...accused of brewing poison tea and giving it to 60 Rwandan soldiers, killing them all. She is beaten to death. One group of Hutu fall upon a Tutsi man along the road to the airport, beat him senseless, then lay him on his stomach and stomp on his spine until it snaps. No one bothers to cover his body. There is no time to count the dead, much less bury all of them...