Word: wound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...screen glowed pinkishly; a loud speaker in the same room susurrated A human head appeared on the screen, tiny and wraithlike: its lips moved; simultaneously the loud speaker squawked words. Another head appeared; more words. Hands replaced heads, gestured, poured a liquid, shot a gun, wound a watch; the speaker gurgled, crashed, crackled...
...business enterprises. The stock in this company was disposed of before I took office as Secretary of the Treasury; in fact, the distillery company absolutely ceased from doing any of its manufacturing business over three years before the prohibition amendment went into effect, and the entire business was subsequently wound up. At no time was I ever actively engaged in the distilling business. I have no interest in or connection with the distillation of liquor or any liquor business. Very truly yours...
Twice Maurice Bokanowski had cheated Death. During the War he served as a lieutenant, received a thought-to-be mortal wound, recovered. Later, in 1916 while he was crossing the Mediterranean on the Provence, she was torpedoed. For ten hours he clung to a bit of wreckage. Finally he was rescued by a lifeboat...
...thesis, if tediously expounded a la Bolshevik, might indeed cause hurtful boredom. But as the smart and sprightly Count spurs across Europe, tilting at Nationalisms, he conjures much novelty and wisdom from successive countries with the talisman of sly philosophy. And his spurs, as a gentleman's should, wound not half so often as they stimulate...
...cause of Stefan Raditch's death, last week, was a bullet wound which he received on the floor of the Jugoslav Parliament (TIME, July 2), from the pistol of a Government Deputy who fired amuck among the Croatian Deputies, killing two, and wounding four, including Stefan Raditch...