Word: wound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kathenas chei to pono tou-everyone has his wound,' say the Greeks. Greece is bleeding from a million wounds. It is a country of refugees and prisoners. Vast hordes of peasants have left their meager land to escape the Red terror. In ramshackle huts on the fringes of provincial towns, they sit hungrily day after day. When a foreign newsman appears, they gather around him. Why does the U.S. not send a torrent of aid? Most of those who ask this question have kin or acquaintances who came back rich from America. To them the U.S. is a bottomless...
...Down. Public notice was bad for unpredictable Vince Foster; he went on another binge and wound up facing a rape charge. For Manager Hurley it was as though $100,000 in purses had flown out the window, but he set to work again, glumly, doggedly fitting the pieces together. The criminal charge against Foster was dismissed. The fighter went back to training and praying, and Manager Hurley began to think about purses again...
...spring is full of minor regattas, special invitational regattas, and championship regattas. Harvard has entered most of them and has usually wound up in second place. Yale has proved unbeatable this year, and in the several races not entered by the Elis, Harvard has been edged...
Larceny & Bold Pace. But some top-bracket comedians, preparing to plunge into TV next fall, are still feeling pain from an old Berle-inflicted wound. Berle ("The Thief of Badgags") has always" been so intoxicated by the sound of audience laughter that he could never resist using likely material-even if someone else had used it first. He is firmly convinced that any gag sounds better leaving his own mouth, and, argues his faithful flock, all jokes are public property any how. An understanding friend explains: "The guy just can't help imitating something that has entertained . . . His heart...
...Radcliffe Athletic Association wound up the sports year this week with awards of one blazer, one junior award, 22 letters, and 18 class numerals...