Word: wound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...extended the offer to buy, as he had the option to do, he surely would have wound up with the full 2,000,000 shares. Instead, Hughes chose to withdraw his offer. His Hughes Tool Co. cited ABC management's "inordinate opposition" as the cause for giving up. More likely, the main reason was a very personal one-reclusive Howard Hughes's reluctance to show himself in public. Back in 1963, he gave up his right to manage TWA rather than make a court appearance. Now, at ABC's request, the Federal Communications Commission scheduled hearings...
...state legislature in 1936, later became Travis County district attorney. After a 3½-year wartime stint in Naval intelligence, during which he rose to lieutenant commander, Thornberry opened his own law practice, served on the Austin city council and as mayor pro tem. The nonpaying city post wound up costing him money, for Homer's law clients expected him to fix such things as $1 parking tickets, and rather than lose the clients, he paid the fines himself. It was as a city councilman in 1941 that Thornberry first showed his clear commitment to civil rights by fighting...
...record-breakers: Seattle's Charlie Greene, 23, Texan Jim Hines, 21, and Ronnie Ray Smith, a sophomore at California's San Jose State College. Disallowed because of a following 6.2-m.p.h. breeze (legal maximum: 4.473 m.p.h.) was a clocking of 9.8 sec. for Hines-who wound up losing to Greene in the final in the suddenly mediocre time of ten-flat...
...since childhood, Margarete happened on the idea of fashioning toy elephants from scraps of felt and cloth for use as pincushions. They proved so popular with friends that Margarete soon gave up dressmaking, began turning out other stuffed animals with the help of relatives. When several Steiff-made bears wound up as table decorations at the 1906 White House wedding of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Teddy's daughter, the resulting publicity made the German company bullish on bears; the following year it sold 974,000 cuddly Teddy bears...
...turned their attention to uncovering the damage to Kennedy's brain. The head was shaved. Overlying skin and muscle were then cut and laid back. An air-powered drill bored through the skull, and a segment of bone was removed. Then, while Reid helped control bleeding, Cuneo probed the wound. Softened and bruised brain tissue, bone fragments and clotted blood were removed by suction...