Word: wound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three cars, one bearing the black, red and gold pennant of the West German Federal Republic, wound upwards through the vineyards on the east bank of the Rhine. The first car was a Porsche, weighed down by two policemen; the second, a huge Mercedes with two blue spotlights blinking. A smaller Mercedes brought up the rear, and in it, four policemen sat within gripping distance of four submachine guns...
...crowds surged onto the field, trying hard to keep their cricket manners (e.g., signs warn that anyone asking for autographs may be removed from the grounds). But they wound up hugging and kissing their heroes and thumping them on the back. The press exploded in typographical fireworks. Bannered...
...footloose English writer in Florence, inwardly reliving the wartime days when he worked with the Italian partisans. His most haunting memory : a tug of war between love and loyalty, in which he turned in his girl Nina to the partisan chief Giulio because she was a German agent. The wound is reopened and history re-enacted when Florence is threatened with a Communist coup led by Giulio. But this time it is a ravaged and vengeful Nina who betrays Harry to Giulio. What happens when Giulio is murdered and Harry faces Nina again gives Author Clewes his title...
...closer inspection, the appointment looked like a natural. By naming Upton, Gregg had healed a party wound, placating the old-line party organization men, who had resented the 1952 treatment of their vice chairman. Upton emphasized that he was accepting the appointment "without condition," but politicos guessed that he will not run next year, when the seat must be filled by election. That would leave a wide-open race for other candidates, probably including young Hugh Gregg...
...foals, bringing nearly $200,000 in stud fees to his owner, a onetime farm hand named William Rysdyk, who bought him for $125. Hambletonian (after whom the race is named) in turn was sired by Abdallah I, an evil-tempered individualist who, after siring hundreds of foal's, wound up at 31 hitched to a fish peddler's wagon. After venerefully kicking the wagon to pieces, proud old Abdal lah spent the final months of his life roaming wild on a Brooklyn beach. Too weak to forage for food, he took refuge from oncoming winter in a deserted...