Word: wound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Momentarily, Harry Truman's announcement mended one breach in the Democratic Party. The Southern Democrats' revolt was against Truman, and now the target was gone. But there was no assurance that the wound was healed permanently...
...Chase. As he drove off, he was stopped by a neighbor named Clifford McDonnell, who had heard the telephone alarm. Ellis fired again and left McDonnell bleeding from a wound in the neck. A few minutes later his car stalled and another neighbor named Deo Gardner and two men drove up beside him in the dark. Answering a question, Ellis shouted: "I hear there's been somebody murdered back up the river." Then he shot and killed Gardner...
...Grand Hotel, where the ballroom had been turned into a massive theater lobby containing blown-up Quo Vadis displays, exhibits of tie-in merchandise, a seemingly endless 16 mm. trailer of the picture (which many of the managers had not yet seen). ¶ Attended a luncheon which wound up with a roaring tribute from a caged lion...
Women with Talons. The most striking feature of these stories, which are typical of most of the others in the book, is that they all seem to have been written by the same author. Except when they are wound up in a woolly snarl of technological jargon, they all employ one voice-that of the '203 and '303 tough guy, bounded on the rough side by "Huh," and on the smooth by slick patter ("Her voice was like _ a cello bowed up near the bridge"). All the objects of numbed horror are interchangeable, whether they are masked women...
...ditch Truman in 1948, got let down by Truman in 1952. Nothing seemed to be going right for him. Before the week was out, a squirrel ran up his pants leg and bit his right thigh. Moaned Jimmy, after a nurse at the Beverly Hills emergency hospital cauterized the wound: "It seems things are getting tougher for Democrats-all over...