Word: wound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that every dam since Hoover has been an anticlimax. "It's the glamour dam," he says wistfully. "I still can't go down in the elevator and step out on the intake and look up without being inspired." M-K introduced bulldozers to its partners at Hoover, wound up using 60 huge monsters. There, too, M-K showed off a new tunnel-driving technique using drill jumbos, great scaffolds on which men with 40 drills could hammer away at the same time, thus cutting costs drastically. Hoover was finished in five years, and MK's share...
...Vienna was Marshal Konev, a pleasant enough fellow at a diplomatic reception. But "Konev, the social companion, and Konev, the servant of world revolution, were two different beings . . . He was a mental robot saying only what had been written for him, as though his tongue moved only when wound by a key in the Kremlin." So, in Korea, it came as no surprise to Clark when North Korea's General Nam II sat in dead silence for 131 minutes rather than answer a direct question during the armistice talks, or that he planned the prisoner-of-war riots...
...ranch manager carried her to his car and raced five miles into town. Her physician, Dr. Jerry Fairbanks, 31, found her near death upon arrival. A nurse and another doctor lent their thumbs in turn to close the wound while Dr. Fairbanks gave Mrs. Rogers both plasma and whole blood, telephoned Yakima for more blood, and arranged for an ambulance trip to Spokane. Relays of state troopers rushed the blood 110 miles from Yakima; then Dr. Fairbanks bundled his patient up for the equally long drive to Spokane. He kept his thumb on the artery...
...eighth consecutive fiscal year, booming Canada wound up with a budget surplus. The 1954-55 budget, presented to Parliament last week, reported a $10 million surplus from last year. That was the smallest since 1946, too small to permit any income-tax cuts, but still big enough to keep Canada in the select group of countries currently operating in the black...
Snead, meanwhile, had found his touch again. He wound up with a par 72 and posted a total score of 289. Patton, with a commendable finishing 71, was home a stroke behind. Now Hogan was forced to gamble, and still his putts refused to drop. He needed a birdie three on the 18th to win. He had to settle for a par that tied him with Slammin' Sammy Snead...