Word: horizons
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...left barrel of his British Purdey suddenly exploded. "It is a matter of little importance," shrugged the icy-veined old soldier, surveying his bleeding left hand. "Give me a handkerchief to tie it up." The Caudillo seemed unfazed by the fact that had he been sighting along the horizon instead of upward over his head, the explosion might well have caught him in the face. Less stoically, shaken aides hustled the protesting Generalissimo off to a Spanish air force hospital for his first in-patient treatment since 1916, when Riff rebels wounded him in the stomach in Spanish Morocco...
...committed to running again in '62. He's in this with both feet. But nobody can tell what's coming. You never know what's going to happen until it does. Two months ago, Rockefeller was unbeatable; there wasn't a cloud on the horizon. Then the picture changed drastically. It's the fortunes...
...late '20s, his early attempt at painting was left behind, and in its place was a craft he had learned at the Renault plant during World War I: acetylene torch welding. His reconciliation with Picasso followed, and they worked together on some sculptures. Picasso's limitless horizon of idea and sense of imagery liberated Gonzalez from his lingering post-impressionist style; Gonzalez took to the air and escaped from the solid, heavy past of sculpture...
Though the patient has since had a stormy recuperation, this may have been mainly because of the unavoidable severity of the operation. She has shown no signs of brain damage due to oxygen shortage. Her case opens a surgical horizon with possibilities of far safer and more effective operations for aneurysms ("blowouts" in brain blood vessels) and some brain tumors...
...Mitchell Goodman-Horizon...