Word: wound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...office of the Aspen Association was ringing urgently last week, and the girl on the answering end was doing her frazzled best to be sympathetic: "Well, you could call again to see if there are any cancellations. What town are you calling from? Oh, New York." Seconds later, she wound up another call...
...needed to get the hospital opened and operating. Along the way, he called on Lumber Millionaire Alfred S. Mitchell to ask for a donation. Mitchell was also having trouble with his eyes. An on-the-spot examination revealed cataracts, which Dr. Callahan later removed. Again, no bill. Mitchell wound up giving $25,000, and gifts from the foundation that administers the Mitchell estate have since raised the total...
Last week, as proof of patients' gratitude, Dr. Callahan had the promise of a new Mitchell Foundation gift of $600,000. Two other foundations are meeting soon to consider additional grants. One is headed by John E. Meyer, who suffered an eye wound as a fighter pilot in World War II, and periodically goes to Dr. Callahan to have long-hidden metal fragments removed...
...trouble in the house proves to be not single but multiple, and it is all wound up with the gothic flourish of an ambiguous murder. The prose in this first novel by Mary Ellin Barrett, daughter of Composer Irving Berlin, sometimes rises a little too high on its toes and ends up breathless. But the book is saved from the Venus flytrap of ladies' magazine fiction by its easy intimacy with the ambiance of those days of picnic baskets and tennis flannels. The author has a sophisticated sense of the tensions that show among even the most beautiful people...
...days? The pro-football Giants have turned into dwarfs (see col. 2), and the Jets are strictly subsonic. The Knicks are to pro basketball what Mrs. Miller is to soul music. Baseball's onceproud Yankees are a burnt-out case: they finished tenth last year. And the Mets wound up ninth only because they play in another league with the even worse Chicago Cubs...