Word: wound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cecil Lewis' more conventional War experiences included a love affair with the mistress of a French officer, a number of accidents and one wound, a bad defeat in mimic warfare with the great French Pilot Guynemer, flights through the spectacular bombardment that opened the Somme offensive, a ludicrous mishap when his plane got away and raced around a field until it crashed. At 19 he was exhausted, weakened with eyestrain, his nerves ajangle, motivated only by a fatalistic conviction that, he would get through. The only time Lewis felt any anger against an enemy air man was during...
...scaffolding in Germany, smashed his right leg. It became infected. Doctors wished to amputate but Sculptor Diederich stubbornly refused to let them, traveled in agony from one hospital to another. Few months ago the first real progress came with the application of sterile maggots to the open wound...
...with the Brookline course is that nobody knows what the route is. The Freshmen went out with orders to run for twenty minutes and were unable to find their way back for an hour. The Varsity went out with orders to run a half hour and within twenty minutes wound up from where they started...
During past years the last named purpose has flared with almost sacred zeal. It is a matter of common knowledge that last year one young American successfully wound up the season in possession of a soccer ball, a pair of spectacles, several rolls of adhesive tape, and a varigated assortment of sweaters...
...hear anyone so I thought I had better have a peek. . .. They thought I could sprint only about the last 70 metres and weren't prepared when I started my run. I think I could have sustained it for another 100 metres if necessary. ... I was a bit wound up, wasn...