Word: wound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blinding heat, a French army patrol wound deep into the Atlas Mountains last week. Ambling, loose-jointed came a detachment of the Camel Corps, then a sweltering khaki-clad detachment of the Foreign Legion, finally a black-skinned, red-fezzed detachment of stalwart Senegalese. The column entered the pass called El Bordj. Nothing is there but blistering rocks, flat, cracked stretches of baked mud. The French column, losing contact with their flank outposts, pushed forward intent on reaching the evening's camp...
...Windsor he discovered that an abscess had formed under the wound through which King George's lung had been drained. The abscess broke naturally and was draining successfully-not a serious matter ordinarily, but grave indeed to anyone who had been as sick as King George...
...tourists dozing last week in the morgue-like lobby of the Hotel Cecil in London awoke with a start as a strange procession wound between the marble pillars and overstuffed chairs. First came a clergyman in surplice and stole. Then came a number of large dignified gentlemen in silk hats and cutaway coats, and finally a file of choir boys, correctly black cassocked and white collared but with hair strangely mussed, cheeks unusually bright...
...Berlin last week, the May Day methods of the police (TIME, May 13) were bitterly assailed. Communist sympathizers pointed out that during the four days' rioting that followed Bloody May Day. only one policeman received a bullet wound-an accidental wound inflicted by himself. Of the rioters, 27 were killed, more than 100 injured. Scores of non-Communist shopkeepers from the riotous Berlin districts said that they did not see a single civilian shoot at the police...
...corner. As the visiting hurler started working on Prior, one of the Crimson's leading sluggers, the Harvard leader put himself in a position to score the winning run by stealing second. The first pitch went wild and Prior ticked the second into the stands. As Hensil wound up for the third throw McGrath streaked towards home in a desperate attempt to knot the count, sliding over the plate as the ball thumped into the catcher's mit. When the dust cleared Umpire Kelleher's hand could be seen signalling the narrow failure of the potential tally; the same gesture...