Word: wound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about his wartime exploits as a paratroop officer, when he led a patrol behind the German-line near Arnhem, returning with 32 prisoners and without a scratch. Mostly he told the people about the issues of the 81st Congress, and how to apply for a Farmers Home Administration loan, wound up offering to send a weekly news digest from Washington...
...went promptly to his room, and to sleep. He was slim, patient Jan Herman van Royen, able career diplomat and chief Dutch troubleshooter at The Hague Round Table Conference, which had been called to settle the differences between Indonesia and The Netherlands (TIME, Sept. 5). Van Royen had just wound up a crucial committee meeting which seemed to assure the conference's success. The way was clear for the birth of a new nation...
Recounting the rigors of his visit to the U.S., the Rt. Rev. John W. C. Wand, Bishop of London, told his diocese that he wound up feeling "rather like a squeezed orange...
...total of donations soared to 315 pints yesterday as the Brooks House emergency blood drive committee wound up its three week whirlwind campaign...
Cambridge politicians wound up their Campaigns for City Council and School Committee last night by matching noisy doctrinal parades calculated to impress votes with the energy and imagination they could bring to office...