Word: wound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which must sell beef in order to buy foreign oil, the saying goes that "every time you start a car you kill a cow." President Juan Perón wants foreigners to come in and produce enough oil to supply his country's needs and to staunch the wound that bleeds the economy of some $200 million a year. Perón last April signed the contract with California Standard, subject to legislative approval. Its main provisions were those that in general prevail throughout the world: 1) a 50-50 split of profits between government and company, 2) commitments...
...resolute entrant in his state's championship tennis tournament, New Jersey's outdoorsy Democratic Governor Robert B. Meyner, unseeded, wielded his racket as if he meant it, wound up with politics still a more rewarding dish for him. Weekend Tennist Meyner, 46, was eliminated, in his first round, in straight sets...
...Albuquerque wound up its 14th annual chamber-music festival last week in the 500-seat Little Theater. The concerts are donated by Banker-Rancher Albert Gallatin Simms, onetime Congressman, in memory of his wife, onetime Congresswoman Ruth Hanna McCormick. Each performance ends with Schumann's Piano Quintet, Op. 44 (it is Sponsor Simms's favorite). This year's guest star: top Violist William Primrose...
Team competition, as American scorers saw it, wound up in a 9-9 tie. But the U.S. had neglected to send a featherweight competitor, and the Russians, certain they were entitled to the featherweight points, claimed an 11-9 victory. The argument was incidental. Everyone was talking about Anderson. He had grown too monstrous to make much of a showing in "Mr. America" contests, but to Muscovites, who no longer differentiate between amateur and professional, athlete and show man, Paul Anderson was chudo prirody (a wonder of nature). He was indeed...
...defended by its top men, explained sympathetically by two psychiatrists, attacked by only one witness, William Mooring, syndicated movie editor for some 50 Roman Catholic newspapers. Critic Mooring cited a murder-rape case directly inspired by a rape movie, listed eleven recent films as harmful to youthful morals, irrelevantly wound up by lambasting drive-in theaters for encouraging young couples to neck, or worse, in cars...