Word: wound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pink dawn found the 697-ft. liner heeled well over, her wound completely hidden under water. Above the ring of rescue vessels helicopters from shore appeared at the call of Stockholm. One snatched up three injured seamen, who were hurried to shore. Another gently hoisted the youngest casualty, four-year-old Norma di Sandro, whose skull was fractured, possibly when she was dropped from Andrea Doria into a lifeboat. (She died next day at Boston's U.S. Public Service Hospital.) By 5 a.m. only Captain Calamai and a score of his crew were still aboard Andrea Doria, still trying...
...Royal West African Frontier Force, Zik passed up Oxford or Cambridge to enroll in West Virginia's Storer College. Supplementing his original stake (his father's $1,200 retirement gratuity) with jobs as a coal miner, busboy and dishwasher, Zik spent nine years in the U.S., wound up with an M.A. in anthropology and government from the University of Pennsylvania...
Raging passions!") and wound up pre senting little Robertino to Rossellini while still awaiting her divorce from Dr. Peter Lindstrom. In the current issue of Redbook magazine, Ingrid describes her "or deal" and defends her "selfish decision." "I've never been able to understand all the fuss. All right, I had a baby before I was married. It's not the first time that ever happened to a woman, and it's not the last . . . And if the two people love one another and marry, and if they have a happy family, isn't that what...
...Bafzanakia. Thus the Government wound up by slapping Niarchos' wrist. His fines were greatly reduced, in effect, since the 13 ships transferred to foreign registry automatically gained $5,000,000 in value as a result of lower operating costs under flags of convenience. Though it will cost Niarchos up to $325 a ton to build his ships in the U.S., v. $200 in jampacked Japanese yards, he will get far better engineering and faster delivery (by late 1957). As a result of the suits, he also placed 75% of the stock in three of his U.S. companies in trust...
...horns taken by the players to Laarne are the direct descendants of the circular trompe de chasse developed in France toward the middle of the 17th century. The present-day horn is a 4.54 meter-long conical brass tube wound three times around and flaring from the mouthpiece to a fat bell. Pitched to the key of C, the horn sounds a plaintive, husky call which on good days may ride the wind for a mile or more...