Word: wound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lost money to Rothstein at poker. Later he had taken a room at the Park Central Hotel, ordered whiskey, summoned Rothstein by telephone. Rothstein was seen staggering away from the room clutching his belly, was found at the servants' entrance of the hotel with a fatal bullet wound in his groin. He refused to name his assailant. An automatic pistol was picked up on the street under McManus' window, in the screen of which was torn a big hole...
...blood of a haemophile does not congeal normally upon contact with the air. Thus the slightest wound leads to profuse bleeding, due to retardation of the process called "healing...
...rumors grew and flew. From Boston, from all New.England, from the outer-States and Canada came the sick, the halt, the blind, the faithful, the curious; also quick-lunch vendors, souvenir postcard hawkers, trinket peddlers, troublemakers. From dawn to dusk, day after day, the slow-shuffling queue wound through the cemetery to the silent grave, heaped with flowers, surrounded with guttering vigil lights. Boston's Irish Catholic Mayor-elect James Michael Curley came with his son to kneel beside the shrine. Last week the estimated attendance...
...Boston, Mass., a cat named Sarah, mother of 72, felt ill. After three days' agony she leaped to a store counter, wound a string around her paws and a decayed tooth, yanked out the tooth, felt better...
Outside the post a great many of us lay on the ground in the dark. They carried wounded in and brought them out. I could see the light come out from the dressing station when the curtain opened and they brought someone in or out. The dead were off to one side. The doctors were working with their sleeves up to their shoulders and were red as butchers. There were not enough stretchers. Some of the wounded were noisy but most were quiet. The wind blew the leaves in the bower over the door of the dressing station...