Word: wound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finger of scorn from our betters since we devoted ourselves mainly to the pursuit of happiness, coeds and corn whisky and read only the sports pages. Of that group, most of them grew up to succeed. The long-skulls who wrote the learned essays for the campus paper wound up as minor clerks and press agents...
...accept immediately. He had always loved teaching, and feared that an administrative post would leave him no time to teach. But almost simultaneously, he was made a professor of History at Harvard, with the agreement that he could teach and still have time to tend to Radcliffe. He accepted, wound up his Chicago affairs, and was inaugurated in October of 1943. He still teaches one course each year and gives a graduate seminar in the Tudor and Stuart periods of English history...
...Festering Wound. "Liberty . . . is something more than a political phenomenon, as tyrannical dictatorship contends; it is more than an economic phenomenon, as some disciples of free enterprise maintain. It is something more mature than that dream of rights without responsibilities which historic liberalism envisioned; it is certainly different from that terrorism of responsibilities without rights which Communism imposes. It is something wiser than free thought, and something freer than dictated thought. For freedom has its roots in man's spiritual nature. It does not arise out of any social organization, or any constitution, or any part...
...hunting gold and was stranded in Iquitos, too. Their quest almost ended prematurely one night when Clark was bitten by a poisonous snake, a nacanaca, and was only saved because his Indian paddlers went promptly to work with the native treatment: a brew of herbs injected near the wound by repeated jabs of a thorn...
...Manhattan, teams from the U.S., Canada, Britain and Ireland wound up the eight-day National Horse Show by jumping for the International Perpetual Challenge Trophy. The Irish won, but not before the men of all teams had been taught a lesson: the only rides of the evening officially judged flawless were turned in by two women. Canada's Shirley Thomas and the U.S.'s Mrs. Carol Durand...