Word: wound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mulloy's years, was it also too big an order for young Rosewall and Hoad? The semifinals seemed to produce a firm answer. In top physical shape, thanks to Coach Harry Hopman's strict meat-and-sleep training rules, the Australians nonetheless sometimes seemed mentally over-wound, as if their play had become work. Facing powerful Lew Hoad, whose service is one of the fastest in amateur tennis, Vic Seixas showed the same flair for court tactics he demonstrated this year at Wimbledon. It was a net-rushing struggle, but in the end Seixas won in straight sets...
Rolled Razor. Warner-Hudnut, Inc. of Manhattan began market-testing a new safety razor containing 32 blades in the form of a 40-in. ribbon of thin steel wound about a reel. As a blade becomes dull it is wound onto another roller and a new one slides into place. Price...
Cubans naturally found the official story strange and unconvincing; lurid rumors began to spread. Last week Cuba's leading magazine, Bohemia, printed a photograph of Arteaga. Under the picture was the deadpan caption: "The wound suffered by Monsignor Manuel Arteaga on the forehead on the night of the 12th of August in his palace on the Avenida del Puerto. Twenty stitches were necessary to close it, the task being accomplished by Dr. Anido in the operating room of the Centro Médico Quirürgico...
Loved ones from the spirit world hovered over Washington, D.C. to be in on the ninth annual convention of the Federation of Spiritual Churches and Associations, representing 365 spiritualist churches and some 15 "parent bodies." Last week at the Shoreham Hotel, the bright-eyed priests and priestesses of spiritualism wound up five days of speeches, seances and healing sessions, during which they compared notes on materializations and levitations, automatic writings and unfriendly state laws. For relaxation, the 200-odd delegates took in sightseeing tours and a weekend dinner-dance or rested their corporeal manifestations in the lobby and read...
...Jacques when they were children and lived in the country together, roaming the woods like a junior fan club for the Marquis de Sade. They played flogging games with horsewhips. Lashing Claude and another playmate, Denise, had been the best fun of all-"so sweet." Claude murmured, fondling her wound, "that afterwards one would like to be whipped again...