Word: wound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assembly wound up its 17 days with some notable pieces of business. The delegates re-elected Dr. Willem A. Visser 't Hooft as general secretary of the World Council, elected Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, president of the United Lutheran Church in America, as chairman of the powerful, 90-man Central Committee, which will carry on the Council's business between assemblies, and decided to meet again in 1960. Of the final statements approved, the most noteworthy were...
...Iowa State College last week, some 800 delegates, claiming to represent 800,000 U.S. college undergraduates, wound up the annual congress of the U.S. National Student Association. In ten days of argument and discussion, resolutions and amendments, one thing was clear: there was not a wild eye in the house. The N.S.A., born in 1947 to a rough and tumble fight over controversial issues (e.g., racial discrimination, banning of Communist teachers, etc.) had gone conservative, in expression even more than in politics...
...tuberculosis; in Denver. At 14 (in 1910), Acosta built and flew his own plane, went on to establish a world's speed record (176.7 m.p.h.) at 26 and endurance record (51 hr. 11 min. 25 sec.) at 32; in later life, despite hard times and family problems, wound up with a legendary reputation for skillful piloting and artful risk-taking (e.g., he once buzzed Manhattan's Metropolitan Life tower to see what time...
Smiling mistily, Herbert Clark Hoover rode into West Branch at the head of a long motor caravan, finally wound up the ceremonial schedule amid the bunting of Hoover Park, hard by the three-room frame house where he was born Aug. 10, 1874. At speechmaking time, he was eulogized by Iowa's Governor William Beardsley and Illinois' Governor William Stratton, awarded his 80th honorary degree (Doctor of Laws from the State University of Iowa), and praised in a letter from President Eisenhower ("I look anew, and with ever-increasing admiration, upon your distinguished career"). Then Herbert Hoover stood...
...Australia's rich wheatland, nurses kept an extra-sharp eye on Patient John Clancy, lest he sneak out for a bit of pub-crawling with his cronies. White-bearded Farmer Clancy had already given them the slip once, and they wanted him to stay put until the wound from his operation was fully healed. It was only an appendectomy, but what made the case ususual was Clancy's age: 100. So far as the records showed, he was the oldest appendectomy patient in history. Last week he was out of bed, playing cards and giving visitors his recipe...