Word: wound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...organizational odd jobs for numerous Communist and Communist-front groups, became known as a handy and trustworthy man with a mimeograph, and wound up in "Pro-4," as select and apparently as important a lot of plotters as over thumbed a copy of "Value, Price, and Profit...
Euclides was knocked to the ground. His laço- snapped off. With 3½ metres of laço- wound around his propeller hub, the startled pilot headed for home. Though the wooden prop was cracked, he made it safely. The flying club grounded him; the girl threw him over. And Euclides, the only cowboy ever to lasso an airplane, was once again the lion of the dark-eyed ladies of Rio Grande...
What, or who, killed Cousin Ambrose at that sinister villa in Florence? Was it a "hereditary" brain tumor? Or was it Rachel, his half-Italian, half-English bride? Ambrose, a confirmed bachelor and English country gentleman, had gone to Florence for his health, wound up as a bubbling, then a fearful, husband. To Philip, his heir in Cornwall, it all seemed plain as day: Rachel and her sinister adviser Rainaldi had murdered Cousin Ambrose. Then Rachel came to Cornwall on a visit and, in no time, her cute tricks had Philip dancing attendance like a puppet. But when Philip began...
...into 25 eyeballs. The first two were failures because the scientists imitated nature too closely and made the artificial lens as thick as the ordinary lens. That, it turned out, was too strong. Now they make the lenses thinner. Another failure occurred with an enfeebled man of 75 whose wound did not heal. But Dr. Ridley reports that in 22 cases, the operation appears to be successful. One patient has worn his built-in lens for two years without mishap...
...been chosen to conform to Miss Hellman's philosophical preconceptions. Illusion and romance envelope the genteel Southern boardinghouse of the Tuckerman family, and the play becomes a study of the effect that tough-minded personalities have on these illusions. Florence Eldridge plays an insecure Southern belle, wound up in the intricacy of a false emotion, who sees in life only what she wants. She cannot believe that her disillusioned husband (perhaps too much her antithesis to be really credible) wishes to divorce her merely in order to commune with his own thoughts. Miss Eldridge's interpretation of the part, with...