Word: wound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delinquents. The remaining seven, all of whom signed confessions, quietly waited out their trial. Some of them changed their stories ("I didn't see nobody do nothin' "), protested that they had been beaten into confessions by the police. Last week, after 24 hours of discussion, the jury wound up the city's longest murder trial (14 weeks, 6,000 pages of testimony). Verdict: three defendants were acquitted; two were convicted of murder in the second degree (sentence: 20 years to life), two of manslaughter in the second degree (maximum penalty: 15 years). The guilty four...
Died. Major James H. Doolittle Jr., U.S.A.F., 38, World War II air combat veteran (50 missions), son of Lieut. General Jimmy Doolittle; by gunshot wound, in his office, where a pistol was found on the floor near by; in Austin, Texas...
...about nuts and bolts." Settling down at his battered Smith-Corona typewriter, across from a child's map of the world, Gunther started out with the inside chapters on the Kremlin hierarchy, plowed through what he calls "the picture stuff," i.e., travelogue chapters, tackled science and education, wound up writing the topical opening and concluding chapters...
...weeks after it began trying to diagnose U.S. railroad ailments, the Senate Surface Transportation Subcommittee wound up hearings last week with 2,356 pages of symptoms. Indicated cures: repeal of the wartime 10% passenger excise tax and 3% freight levy; a possible new Government emergency loan fund to help the roads meet soaring maintenance-labor costs; a faster tax write-off period on new equipment by cutting present depreciation rates from 40 years to 20. The subcommittee feels that these changes are politically possible, hopefully expects legislation to bring them about by July...
...Wounded, Nebu tries to get to a white town to deliver the boy to his friends. In his uncomplicated Kikuyu mind, he knows that he has wronged his white master and wants to atone by returning the youngster. As he carries him through the bush, trailed by a leopard waiting for a chance to make a double kill, Nebu is tormented by his son's presence even more than by his festering wound. The leopard, an implacable figure of retribution, provides a horrible ending that blends all the tragic elements of white, black and half-black frustrations and hatred...