Twitter streams and show critiques all seemed to indicate that it was a neck-and-neck race to the finish which co-host destroyed the broadcast.

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Moreover, there was no fracture of the vertebrae at the nape of the neck, and it was evident that he had not been hanged.

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Even on the prototype model, the action of the strings wasn't too high, the neck was comfortable, and frankly, it just felt more familiar.

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With the Inquisition frequently breathing down her neck and excommunications flying to and fro, it was no easy endeavour.

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"The car ran away from me suddenly, it was about six or seven rollovers and I felt a sharp pain in my neck - I tried to reach for my safety belt but I couldn't, " Williams told BBC Sport in an interview in July.

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We could poke our heads in and see it was crushed, yet here she was with a soft neck brace.

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Certainly it was a safer conclusion for a juror than voting for a conviction and risking his own neck in retaliation.

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In 1992, she launched her own fragrance, called "Cashmere Mist, " the directive for which was that it should smell like "Casablanca lilies, red suede and the back of Stephan's neck, " referring to her second husband, Stephan Weiss.

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And it was very difficult for me not to turn into that little black girl from the Bay Area and roll my neck and say, look, I'm a poet.

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He then is said to have tied Geoghan's hands behind his back, gagged him and wound a sheet around the former priest's neck, tightening it with a shoe before beating him severely until prison guards realised what was happening and intervened, the paper said.

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