Word: wound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam. As an operations officer in the Mekong Delta last year, I came in contact with numerous reporters and was amazed by the inexperience, prejudice and hostility of some who, it seemed, had already written their stories (at least mentally) before leaving the U.S. Their stories usually wound up as half-baked concoctions of half-truths completely unrelated to what was really going on. People know how bad reporting really is because those doing the fighting write home, and the truth is passed to millions from friend to friend. The soldier, and through him the citizen, understands and approves...
...Your parents and your dependents may not see some of you again," the President wound up, "but they will always be mighty proud that you came this way, and so am I." For several U.S. soldiers, his words were soon to prove tragically prophetic. That night, while Johnson slept at the Walker Hill recreation center overlooking Seoul, North Korean infiltrators ambushed a U.S. Army patrol 800 yds. south...
During his uphill struggle for Pennsylvania's Democratic gubernatorial nomination, Millionaire Milton Shapp relied heavily on the man-v.-machine theme-and indeed wound up snatching victory from the organization candidate. In the last days of the general election contest, Shapp's Republican opponent, Lieutenant Governor Raymond Shafer, also found himself fighting a machine-in his case, the television...
...deeper than the North-South Cabinet split was the wound that Premier Ky sought to heal last week at Pleiku. There, on the edge of Viet Nam's serrated central plateau, he sat down with leaders of the rebellious Montagnard tribes, whose demands for equal treatment have plagued every Saigon government since...
...ranked Alabama scored three touchdowns on passes in a 42-6 pasting of Vanderbilt; the passing bug was so contagious that even a fullback tossed for a TD. Between them, Purdue and No. 2-ranked Michigan State put the ball in the air 51 times, and M.S.U. wound up with the ball game 41-20. Missouri, which was expected to run all over lowly Iowa State, needed a leaping touchdown catch in the final minutes to salvage a 10-10 tie. And Harvard, which had stuck to the ground so doggedly all season that it ranked first in the nation...