Word: wound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dances). In Bombay Indians rose for a standing ovation. The cheers were for the 100-piece Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra and its conductor, Antal Dorati. 51. Last week, to another ovation in Belgrade, the orchestra wound up a triumphant five weeks' tour of a dozen cities in eight countries from the Balkans to the Indian Ocean...
...Zohra scrambled through a trapdoor into a secret chamber above the stairwell of the house. Before he slammed the trapdoor shut, Yacef cut loose with a burst of machine-gun fire, then tossed down a hand grenade that went off in the paratroopers' faces but did not seriously wound them. "Surrender, Yacef," shouted the French officer, "or we'll blow up the staircase...
...hemorrhage that cannot be controlled by other means," i.e., only for massive arterial bleeding, never for venous bleeding. Once in place, it should not be loosened every 15 minutes (as formerly advised), but left tight until a physician takes over. Alternative to the tourniquet: pressure by hand over the wound, or on the artery above the wound...
Successful Failure. Robert LaFayette Cox has been on the run for the better part of his life. A couple of his slower-footed friends in the grade-school gang he ran with in Los Angeles wound up in reform school. When he was 14, he ran away from home, worked at odd jobs along the West Coast for a few months before he took a crack at education again in Washington's Walla Walla High School...
...Lone Wolf. For Mike Benedum it was also the capper on as fabulous a career as the fabled oil industry has ever seen. He has had a hand in virtually every major U.S. oilfield, and wound up with a personal fortune estimated at something like $250 million.* "I've always been a lone wolf," says Benedum. "I started as one and I'm finishing as one. I may be the last "of the breed...