Word: wound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such mechanical extravagance became particularly popular in Germany. A gilded brass Krippe was presented in about 1589 to Elector Christian I by his wife, Sophia. When wound up, a globe on top opens, showing God surrounded by angels; a wall below slides back to reveal the manger, angels come down from heaven to music, Joseph rocks the cradle, the ox and ass rise from their knees, and the shepherds march in, followed by the kings...
...Sales for the first nine months of 1959 were down $40 million, with a $6,400,000 drop (to $9,000,000) in profits. Once again C-W was suspended from trading as investors tried frantically to dump their stock. When trading was resumed, C-W dropped, wound up 5⅞ points below the high...
...West Texas town of Kermit (pop. 7,000), doctors soon saw that nature had made a series of deadly mistakes. Milk could not reach the baby's stomach, because his gullet came to a dead end in the upper chest. He had no anal opening (the lower colon wound itself into another dead end). Furthermore, both kidneys were on the right side, and one did not work. Surgeons at nearby Odessa made a temporary opening into Phillip's stomach so he could be fed, and another opening in the lower bowel for evacuation. But the sickly infant...
...frozen marsh. "Man is shot!" he shouted. "An accident! An accident!" The two men hurried to another blind, 300 yds. away, where they came on a hunter's nightmare. On the rough hummock, Harry W. Anderson, 67, retired vice president of General Motors, lay dying, a gaping wound in the back of his head. Over his body crouched Harlow Curtice, 66, onetime General Motors president (TIME, Jan. 2, 1956), in a state of trembling shock...
Getting down to business, he pointed out that Rockefeller's father had given his children a bicycle to share, but that "one man (Nelson) wound up with all the wheels. It is this sort of luck and gimleteyed perspicacity that marks a man suited for the Presidency...