Word: wound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another group a small fellow with a suede jacket was speculating on the coming debate, "Yeh, I bet those Harvard characters attack McCarthy. They'll never convince me he isn't an all right Joe. Take those lies about his war wound...
Haymaker. In Pinckneyville, Ill., Farmer Leslie Ertl, 59, annoyed by the stubbornness of one of his cows, kicked the beast, wound up in the hospital with a broken...
...cover story (TIME, April 16, 1951), Liz spent many days in Wilmington, Del. Once, during the course of the research, she and Mr. Greenewalt found themselves in a long, theoretical discussion on how TIME researches and reports a story-particularly such a complicated one as this. The discussion finally wound up in a bet. If there were no errors in the Greenewalt cover story, he was to pay Liz $5; for each error, Liz was to pay him $1. Says she: "I had to send him $1. I got Pierre du Font's age wrong...
...among the lucky few of the wounded who got out early. The others had to wait, lying in foxholes the size of their stretchers, until the skies over Dienbienphu cleared and the planes which could strike at the Viet Minh Communist artillery zeroed in on the airstrip. Outside his ward in the military hospital at Hanoi, the corridors are filled with other wounded, in cots crowded head to foot in a row. The legionnaire talks matter-of-factly of the paratroop drop and of the wound he got only half an hour after landing; no heroism, no bravado, no whimpering...
...setting another record, placed second in the 220-yd. Cleveland also won the 100-yd., Oyakawa the 100-yd. backstroke. In all, Ohio State's three accounted for 47 of their team's 94 winning points. Runner-up Michigan scored 67, and defending champions from Yale wound up third with...