Word: wound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Riddled with venereal disease, still crippled from a bullet wound sustained at his capture in the jungle last month, a leader without an army, betrayed even by his mistress, Kimathi had only the memory of past power to sustain him. Despite the fact that it carried the death penalty, even the charge against him-carrying a loaded revolver-was a humiliation to a chieftain who had once ordained life and death for hundreds. His defense was a meeching plea that he was coming out of the forest to surrender when he was captured. "But he could have surrendered...
...they sold out to Sweet Grass. Meanwhile, Sweet Grass created 1,750,000 shares of stock, presumably to cover the merger and be issued to stockholders in D.M.O.D. But actually, said SEC, since the merger had already been paid for in cash, most of the stock wound up in President Ciglen's Toronto brokerage account...
Russia, with 37 gold medals, wound up with the total unofficial high score of 722. The United States took 32 medals and finished with 593 points...
...Guerre also brought out a new automatic. Dubbed the F.N., it was quickly adopted as the standard rifle of such NATO partners as Britain, France, Canada and Belgium. Rather than fall completely out of step, the Army ordered the Springfield T 44 and the Belgian F.N. tested competitively, wound up deciding the T 44 was still the rifle it wanted. From the Army's research and development staff came a recommendation that the T 44 be manufactured (at $95 apiece) in sufficient quantity to replace the M 1 Garand as the Garands gradually wore...
Aladar, the man in the story, comes as reluctantly to love as the girl. Nearing 40, insulated in the creature comforts of habit, he has reached that safe harbor where the winds of memory can no longer wound. He can think without wincing of his failure as a painter, of his wife's deserting him for another man. Now Aladar is a successful businessman who does not seek adventures. On meeting Lalla, he methodically notes that she is a peroxide blonde, pretty, somewhat common, a compulsive liar, but all the same, rather appealing...