Word: wound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Irreplaceable. One of five sons* of a Montgomery druggist, Jerry Persons won an engineering degree at Alabama Polytechnic Institute ('16), served as a coast artillery captain in France during World War I, stayed in the Army while studying business administration at Harvard, and wound up as a congressional liaison man in the War Department. There, in the early 1930s, he met and became a favorite companion of Major Dwight Eisenhower, working just down the corridor in the office of Chief of Staff Douglas Mac-Arthur. In 1938 Persons breezed through the Army's Command and General Staff School...
...Group 20 Players wound up their season with Shaw's Pygmalion. This represented a real coup. The professional rights to the play have been frozen since My Fair Lady opened and will remain so as long as the musical runs. Somehow Kilty managed to persuade Shaw's agents to make one exception; those who missed this production will just have to wait years...
...love is here to stay, and the segregationists can't do anything about it." The conference set up an interim committee (six priests, one nun and 15 laymen and women) to work toward a goal of 50 new Catholic interracial councils (present total: 36). Then the delegates wound up with a duplicating machine full of resolutions with some strong words among the platitudes. One resolution condemned fraternal organizations, e.g., the Knights of Columbus, which blackball Negroes, even in the North; another denounced as "scandalous" the "many Catholic hospitals [which] practice policies of racial exclusion or segregation." A third...
...results, reported by Dr. Arthur H. Schmale Jr. in Psychosomatic Medicine, were startling. Every patient except one had suffered some such blow, and careful interviews with relatives confirmed it. In 35 cases the blow rubbed a childhood wound, such as death or divorce, which still remained unhealed. For all 41 patients affected, the upsetting experience brought feelings of "depression" that ranged from anxiety to real hopelessness. When illness struck, every conflict was still unresolved. The illness followed the blow within a week for 31 patients, a month for eight, and six to twelve months for two. Examples...
...year-old father with chronic heart trouble expected his oldest son to support the family. When the son abruptly left home to join the Navy, the father felt hopeless and his condition worsened. After the son wrote that he would not come home on his first furlough, the father wound up in the hospital. A day later he died of ventricular fibrillation...