Word: wound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Columnist John O'Donnell: "Dwight Eisenhower . . . played his first inning in big-league political press and radio conference today and wound up with one hit, no runs and no errors. There was no question about the hit he made with his charm, folksy friendliness and his easy answers...
Meanwhile the winter sports had wound up their seasons. Captained by Clement D. Coady the freshman hockey team got a 4 to 0 win over Yale, and thus gained the honor of having the first undefeated hockey season since 1914. The freshmen wrestlers, captained by H. R. Wood, almost equalled its record, but Yale eked out a win. And the '29 basketball team ended a "disastrous season" by losing to Yale...
...northern Presbyterians wound up their General-Assembly meeting in Manhattan with a broadside of resolutions. In its main actions, the Assembly...
...home, U.S.S. Trigger (SS 237). Thought young Beach: "Wonder if I'm looking at my coffin?" Trigger did become a coffin for 89 men and officers in March 1944, but by then, Lieut. Beach had been transferred to another sub. He lived through twelve longdistance war patrols, wound up as skipper of his own sub, today commands the new U.S.S. Trigger. He becomes, in Submarine, the first U.S. underwater fighter of World War II to write fully about a kind of war whose special triumphs and stresses were shared by no other service. Other books about the subs have...
...next one out. In 1944 he was the chief architect of the Republican platform while his fellow Ohioan, John Bricker, took a run for President and wound up as the vice-presidential candidate. Not long after the election returns were in, Taft had forgotten his "never again." He traveled 30,000 miles and made 500 speeches before the 1948 convention, but then the high-powered Dewey machine ran him down...