Word: wound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rocky was concerned, only one thing was worse than being in jail: being in the Army. Drafted in 1942, just as he was beginning a career in professional boxing, he rebelled against military discipline, flattened his captain with a fast right, went AWOL from Fort Dix, N.J. and wound up in the disciplinary barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kans. A connoisseur of jails by then, Rocky found the Army brand the worst. "All I can say is, stay out of any prison run by a bunch of amateurs...
Jail in the Water. His debt to the Army paid. Rocky drifted back to the big city and wound up where he belonged -in the prize ring. There were distracting influences. Rocky got married, and his wife would burst into tears when he came home with his face looking like a leftover hamburger. Prosecutors badgered him, accused him of covering up bribe offers. Among his managers was Killer Eddie Coco. But Rocky won most of his bouts. In the ring the old street fighter came back. One hot July night in 1947, he knocked out Tony Zale in a celebrated...
...short form" will soon go out to WHO representatives in Africa, Asia and Latin America. As the doctors wound up their conference last week, Denmark's H. C. Gram thanked their Paris hosts in a speech based on the old, long list: Paris, he said, "saved us from E933" (hunger, thirst and exposure), so that in future, delegates would "instantly suppress 310" (anxiety) when called on to return to Paris. Not participating in the conference were Iron Curtain doctors, who abandoned WHO in 1949, possibly embarrassed by E985 on the list (execution...
...Crimson Key's program for freshman tours of the Houses wound up its fourth day yesterday with a total of 200 participants, about 100 more than at this time last year...
...After Aldrich whirled the Queen about the ballroom in a lively foxtrot, some of his countrymen started cutting in on the faintly startled Elizabeth. Protocol soon died an informal death. When the Queen's customary departure hour of midnight came, she stayed on, danced with all cutters-in, wound up having ham and eggs at 3 a.m. London's press next day upbraided Aldrich for his news blackout and the ballroom manners of the crude Americans (observed by an Evening Standard spy). But apparently the Queen had seldom had such a ball. Said one guest...