Word: wound
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Next day Communist-led mobs burned Nasser in effigy in Baghdad's main street. When the body of Kamil Kazanchi, the Communist lawyer executed in Mosul, was brought to the capital for burial, a funeral procession six miles long wound like a slow river through the city center. Behind the coffin marched Iraqis who short months ago acclaimed the dictator of the Nile their idol, and now shouted: "Death to Nasser! Death to Nasser...
...this year's varsity wrestling squad was a powerhouse on pre-season paper, it was a tremendous disappointment in actual competition. Through a nerve-wracking series of misfortunes and near-misses, Coach Robert A. Pickett's men wound up with a 5-6 season mark, and a miserable 1-5, good for last place, in the Ivy League...
...Yardlings wound up their season with an unprecedented number of eight men who had more than thirty points. High-scorer was center Dave Grannis with 20 goals and 24 assists; and Bruce Thomas, a wing, was high goal man with 23 goals and 18 assists. Jim Dwinell, Chris Norris, Tom Heintzman, Dean Alpine, Dave Morse, and Bill Beckett filled out the honor role with 30 or more points apiece...
...appeared here only 24 hours after he wound up what a British-Soviet communique called useful exchanges with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in Moscow...
...Chicago Black Hawks piled up the sorriest record of any team in major-league hockey-a game played almost exclusively by Canadians living in or visiting the U.S. in pursuit of their trade.*In all that time, the Black Hawks managed to finish as high as third only once, wound up dead last in nine of the past twelve seasons. But this year everything suddenly changed. To the astonishment of their most devoted supporters, the revitalized Hawks are second in the National Hockey League standings...