Word: wound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Salting the Wound. Whatever the President's decision, it is not difficult to understand his reluctance to keep Martin around. In 1965 and election year 1966, the Johnson Administration shied away from the higher taxes or lower expenditures that seemed necessary to arrest inflation. But if the Administration was reluctant, Martin was not. He not only read the danger signals but persuaded the Federal Reserve-over Johnson's personal and public protests-to raise the cost and cut the supply of money. Only last month he salted that wound by stating that "markets don't wait...
...lingers over what ordinary westerns cut short in the interest of plot. A soldier is escaping across the river; a man guns him in the back. We don't see a brisk wound-writhe-tumble sequence, then cut to the next scene. We watch the fall, the body drifting in the river, the horse vaguely turning toward shore. All at a distance. No sudden tight thrill, just cool death...
Diercks, derided after Wiggins's goal, won the respect of the 900 fans with his sparkling work thereafter. His job was made difficult by the Crimson defenses unusual sloppy play. Diercks wound up with 28 saves, to 36 for the tenacious Kearney...
...four-year hitch in the Navy, wound up as a Los Angeles gas-station manager. A customer gawked at his size (6 ft. 4 in., 210 Ibs.), suggested that he become a policeman. So did several cops who stopped in for gas. Reddin signed up in 1941 as a $2,040-a-year patrolman, became, in turn, a detective sergeant, adjutant to the traffic chief, lieutenant in charge of training, a much respected captain of the Watts division, deputy chief and head of the technical-services bureau...
Southern Cal Coach Bob Boyd took the same tack, and came within a point of victory over Lew Alcindor and the unbeaten, No. 1-ranked U.C.L.A. Bruins. Alcindor wound up with only 13 points. At the buzzer, the score was tied 31-31; U.C.L.A. salvaged a 40-35 overtime victory. And then there was No. 10-ranked Vanderbilt, also forced into overtime to pull out a 51-41 victory over freeze-minded Georgia...