Word: necked
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...next-door looks, radiant smile, and pert, no-nonsense personality, she is a popular speaker on the Evangelical Protestant celebrity circuit and to nonreligious groups. As she readily admits, she is treated better than most of her fellow disabled Americans. But Joni Eareckson, 31, is totally paralyzed from the neck down...
...summer after she graduated as the "Most Athletic Girl" at a suburban Baltimore high school, she broke her neck in a 1967 diving accident. "Somebody has to bathe me and brush my hair and feed me," she says. "In a sense, success for me is just getting up in the morning, looking at that wheelchair and saying, 'Yeah, it's still here...
...that can pluck chickens. Australian technicians are already testing robots to shear sheep. One machine first stuns the animal with an electric shock, then closes in with its shears. Clipping the back and sides is not too hard, but the technicians still report "significant difficulties" in finishing up the neck and head. In Japan, Mitsubishi has devised a robot that can visually distinguish different species...
...more freshmen stepped in to take the 440 for Harvard. Grace de Fries had a hair-raising debut as she struggled neck-and-neck against UNH's Ann Lannon, pulling ahead only in the final seconds to win. Freshman Lucy Ashwood contributed an impressive come-from-behind effort, rapidly passing four UNH runners to take third place...
...with the pilot. Once in Florida, the robin was greeted by members of the Fort Myers Nature Center, who made sure that it was healthy enough to be set free. "We've done this before," shrugs Delta Spokesman Bill Berry. "Once it was a pelican with a sore neck. He had to keep his head out of the box, and every time the flight attendant passed, he tried to pinch...