Word: wound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Calvin, born 450 years ago this year, would have been surprised at some of the subjects considered last week by his spiritual offspring. The lyist General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. wound up its seven-day meeting in Indianapolis, and by the time the last of the nearly 1,000 commissioners (delegates) went home, it was clear that the Presbyterians had covered a lot of ground. Items: ¶ In two separate resolutions the Assembly took note of the vexed question of recognizing Communist China and admitting it to the U.N., which roiled U.S. Protestant waters...
...other agents across the country rattled similar orders. Project Green was efficiently carried out-and in its bag wound up 21 of the sleepiest-eyed bigtime hoods to be collared in many a long year. For Project Green was aimed at the guests at the Apalachin barbecue...
...making, man-eating industry began in 1859 when Edwin L. Drake, a sickly, bearded failure of a man in a stovepipe hat, brought in the nation's first commercial oil well near Titusville, Pa. Though Discoverer Drake wound up virtually penniless and forgotten, his find opened the scramble for oil across the land...
...another battle in "the age-old fight between the children of light and the people of darkness." But the outraged evangelist was formally charged with "conspiracy to com mit acts injurious to public morals." Her flock stayed ferociously loyal as the case was tried on the front pages and wound its way in and out of court...
...Czechoslovakian refugee in a Moravian peasant costume, who explained that "on this beautiful morning I am going to bring you our rivers. I wish you to hear our country, that you should smell our woods, feel our Slavic heart." She belted out a couple of rousing folk songs, wound up with a teary Tenderly that touched every expatriate-loving heart (fee: $50-$80). Pretty Roslyn Rensch, harpist ("a program of rare charm and beauty for discriminating audiences"), strummed out Believe Me if All Those Endearing Young Charms and Around the World in 80 Days. She was fine until...