Word: wound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lost 4). The rest of the committee included four Ph.D.s (a Russian-born chemist plus professors of Greek literature, economics and Medieval history). There were also some assorted deans, a professor of hygiene, and a director of financial aid. But like all Monday-morning quarterbacks, the committeemen wound up by blaming everything on the white-thatched, mild-mannered coach. Jordan, they recommended to the Harvard Corporation last week, should be fired for "poor teaching...
...While M. & M. does not carry the actual fire, casualty, loss, or accident insurance itself, it acts as an expert broker, helping companies place their insurance as cheaply as possible. One result of such diversification is that while many casualty insurance firms hit rocky going in 1956, M. & M. wound up its best year, handled total premiums worth hundreds of millions, totted up gross revenues of more than $20 million from commissions and other services, and a big (though traditionally secret) profit 25% better than...
...months that shook the soviet empire have passed since the last announced Moscow meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Yet to hear the Committee tell it last week as it wound up five solid days of deliberations, all they had really talked about was the current state of the Russian economy...
...most part, Operation Brotherhood concentrated on the estimated million refugees, many of whom arrived with mutilated limbs and filthy, blood-caked wounds. Some reached the aid stations by sampan, some by oxcart; others were carried on relatives' shoulders or in a hammock slung from a bamboo pole. Accustomed to no more sophisticated medical treatments than massage, bamboo cupping or tiger balm, they were reluctant to wash the dirt off a wound. Some had shaved their heads, refused to bathe, or relied on other traditional "remedies." But all wanted the reputedly powerful medicines from the West. Said a Thai nurse...
Critics Silenced. Yet the biggest news of 1956 was not the consumer's spending; it was the splurge of the U.S. businessman. After pouring a record $28 billion into plant expansion in 1955, business boosted the kitty another 25% in 1956, wound up spending $35 billion for new plants and facilities plus another $9 billion for new office buildings, furnishings, etc. In so doing, U.S. industry passed a major milestone. For the first time since the big arms buildup of Korea, peacetime capital outlays passed military spending, despite an arms budget of $36 billion...