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Word: wound (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conference wound up with a speech from Clement Attlee. He appealed for "unity of aim and actien," predicted a general election "in a very short time." This time, said Attlee, Labor will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Down Goes Nationalization | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

...strength is something football fans can usually bank on, but around the rest of the U.S., big power performance was more uneven as other teams tried out the new rules. Among the surprises: ¶ University of Michigan, looking better than the preseason dope, scored five times in ten minutes, wound up smothering the University of Washington in an intersectional game, 50-0. ¶ Navy, which some experts rank as the top Eastern independent, steamed up & down the field against lightly regarded William & Mary, but never quite zeroed-in its attack, was lucky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Lo, the Poor Irishmen | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

...Belmont Park, in the notable absence of the ailing Native Dancer, Greentree Stable's four-year-old Tom Fool won the $50,000 Sysonby Mile, in a race so clearly predetermined that there were only three starters and no bets were taken. EURJ In Milwaukee, the transplanted Braves wound up their season as the city's first major-league baseball team in 52 years by soundly shattering all National League records for home attendance: 1,826,397 admissions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Oct. 5, 1953 | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

Literal Translation. In Lorain, Ohio, Earl Duke, 25, asked a bus driver for directions, was told to "take a Broadway bus," minutes later wound up in jail charged with bus theft and intoxication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 28, 1953 | 9/28/1953 | See Source »

...engineered a working alliance between Communists and Nationalists, showed Sun Yat-sen how to organize the Kuomintang on the tight Moscow pattern, including a Soviet-type secret police. Borodin barely escaped when Chiang Kai-shek turned against the Communists in 1927. Back in Moscow, he fell from party favor, wound up as editor of the English-language Moscow News...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 14, 1953 | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

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