Word: wound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early in January, in Caracas, a bull drove a horn into Dominguín's upper right thigh, almost severing the big muscle in front of the bone. The wound, his eighth and worst, required an operation, performed in Mexico. Last week, still convalescing, he prepared to open the season in Bogotá. Over breakfast with a few friends, he mused, "I once loved bullfighting like madness. Now I've lost the joy of fighting. That's when fatal things happen. Today I'll make twelve, thirteen, fourteen thousand dollars-but it doesn't seem...
More often, one incident after another seemed to have been sent by fate to deepen the old wound. Booth got a letter from a sergeant named Corbett, asking for free tickets to a performance. "I am sure you will not refuse," wrote Corbett, "when I tell you that I am the . . . soldier that shot and killed your brother." Booth sent the tickets...
...light flashing rhythmically. He slowed. Then he saw something even stranger: a weak blink of light on the ground near the car. He stopped, got out. A white-faced state trooper was sprawled there in the darkness, working a flashlight button with his thumb, and dying from a bullet wound in his stomach...
...approaching hit. If the signs are good, the company may press as many as 150,000 copies in the first edition, and then pray for the record to hit. Last year the seven major labels went through all this 2,868 times. Of that number, 81 songs (2.8%) wound up as hits...
Ralph Zani and Ken Emerson wound up one-two in a close 200-yard breaststroke, while in the high dive, Pete Dillingham's 100.7 points were more than enough...