Word: wound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...watched it pass far overhead, clear the street outside, bang against a wall. By the time he recovered it Owen was sitting on the bench again, the game and series were as good as over. With two Millers on base in their half of the inning, the Bears wound up the series by a deft double play...
...bull) by three matadors working alternately with their own subordinate team of picadors and banderilleros. When the bull first comes in he is played by banderillero and matador with capes. Then the mounted picadors enter, the bull charges them, often kills the horse but always gets a wound in the shoulder-muscle from the picador's lance. Next, four pairs of banderillas (barbed wooden shafts) are stuck into the top of the bull's neck by the banderilleros or, with musical accompaniment, by the matador himself. Then the matador takes the bull alone, plays him with the muleta (red cloth...
...Down with von Papen's Starvation Cabinet!" wound up Herr Torgler, then presented a motion of no confidence on the issue of the President's decree...
News: "The medical examiner found also that Mr. Pollak had had muscular heart trouble of long standing and some kidney ailments. When the question was put to him squarely . . . he stated it to be his opinion that Joe Pollak had died of a bullet wound in his head, thus ruining the last hope of his sad-eyed widow that he might have died of something else...
Died. Lieut. Patrice de MacMahon, grandson of Marshal Marie Edmé Patrice Maurice de MacMahon, second President of the Third (present) French Republic; of a wound inflicted when ambushed by tribesmen: in Mauritania, French West Africa...