Word: wound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ranking rivals on U.S. foreign policy, Democrat Averell Harriman and Republican John Foster Dulles, sat down before the cameras in a CBS Manhattan television studio one night last week for half an hour of what television likes to call political debate. They began in the gentlemanly manner of statesmen, wound up at sign-off time panting like lady wrestlers. In between, they managed to touch on more pertinent-and fascinatingly impertinent-points of U.S. foreign policy than the nation has seen or heard in any single half an hour of the 1952 campaign to date. Excerpts...
...with Washington bureaucracy after eight months, and pining for a more patriotic part, Nixon joined the Navy, asked for sea duty, and was promptly assigned to Ottumwa, Iowa. There he learned nothing about the sea but a good deal about the Midwest. Eventually Nixon wound up as an operations officer with SCAT (South Pacific Combat Air Transport Command), which had the difficult and dangerous task of hauling cargo to the combat zones. He spent 15 months in the South Pacific, once, on Bougainville, was under bombardment for 28 out of 30 nights. Says he: "I got used...
...Home. Nixon is a hard worker, never goes to the movies, rarely allows himself a weekend trip. Once, when he promised his two daughters (Patricia, 6, and Julie, 4) a picnic on a hot day, they wound up in his air-conditioned Senate office. Nixon just misses being handsome (he has fat cheeks and a duckbill nose), but he is what women call "nice-looking"; he gives an impression of earnest freshness...
...Waterloo, Lawrence, as usual, led the congregation in a series of old-time hymns, interspersed with short, humorous monologues. After the tent was filled, George got up to preach, wearing no tie and a suit with no lapels (in accord with old Mennonite custom). By the time he wound up his hour-long sermon, the audience had caught his enthusiasm...
Before the week was out, 4OO-odd young musicians of the Berkshire Music Center, which shares the well-clipped lawns of Tanglewood with the festival, had also wound up their six-week summer session -studying composition (with Aaron Copland, Luigi Dallapiccola), conducting (with Bernstein), and performance (with members of the orchestra). Their big show: Mozart's opera, La Clemenza di Tito, resurrected, rendered into English (and renamed Titus), produced and conducted by the New England Opera Company's Director Boris Goldovsky...