Word: wound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...restiveness about aid, on both sides of the aisle. Prodded by Montana's Democratic Senator Mike Mansfield, a onetime champion of foreign aid, the Senate handed MSA two new deadlines: all economic-aid speeding must end by June 30, 1956, and all spending for military assistance must be wound up a year later. The deadlines demonstrated that the U.S. Senate (and U.S. citizens) has not forgotten that the MSA program was, indeed, meant to be temporary. Said Senator Mansfield: "I believe . . . that the MSA as such has reached a point where the returns are diminishing more and more each...
...anti-Communist North Korean prisoners. Clark has already taken some precautions by moving the 8,000 into two camps under U.S. Army and Marine guards. If a breakout is attempted anyway, Clark (with Washington's backing) has ordered the camp commanders not to shoot to kill or wound, but to fire into the air or the ground and to use non-lethal gases. If most or all of the 8,000 escape in spite of these measures, Clark considers this a lesser evil. Reason: the Communists have already shown that they care much less about the 27,000 already...
...another explanation: the bite of Rhodesia's cold wave. Queen Mother Elizabeth and Margaret stepped off their Comet in light summer dresses, have been shivering and forcing smiles ever since. Added mishap: the Queen Mother's hatbox got away from the 49 other pieces of royal luggage, wound up 600 miles away in Johannesburg...
...things went as most Congressmen thought they would, Joe Martin's victory was one for congressional history. His unprecedented move through the Rules Committee had saved both the EPT bill and congressional precedent in the only way they could have been saved together. And he had wound up so strong that he did not have to use his strength in a rock-crushing, party-splitting vote...
...showed that the winner was Erich Seidel, who, after starting last, had skimmed upright down the wild Arkansas in a record 3 hr. 4 min. 32 sec. While cheers echoed off the Rockies, Winner Seidel stood by unresponsively, fighting a case of stomach cramps. His companion. Theo Rock, who wound up second, sang a swan song. "For a man of my age, this race is enough," vowed he. "There is nothing in Europe to compare with...