Word: wound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which is opposed to Carmichael's philosophy and irritated by his financial fecklessness. Though S.N.C.C., King's group and the Congress of Racial Equality were supposed to share the Mississippi march expenses (more than $25,000), King wound up holding the bill, and has let it be known that his organization will henceforth work alone in Mississippi...
...break into. It's rougher still for a team. The New York Mets tried it in 1962-and produced a tenth-place comedy act. That same year the Houston Astros pranced onto the field (as the Colt .45s), and it looked like the same burlesque. They wound up eighth, ninth, ninth and ninth, just above the Amazin' Mets. But last week, with the season almost three months old, the Astros were the surprise of the National League, orbiting way up there in fourth place. Astronomical...
...ironic accident of timing. The American Medical Association's 115th annual convention in Chicago last week wound up just in time for the doctors to go home to deal with the consequences of Medicare, the social security-administered medical insurance that so many of them had fought against so vehemently and so long...
...miles from San Francisco. Next day he fired his fourth subpar round of the tournament-a one under 69-to beat Palmer by four strokes for the $25,000 winner's purse. "Ten percent of it will go to the Mormon Church," he announced. Sighed Palmer, who wound up with the $12,500 that Billy had originally been shooting for: "Ten percent of it will go to my business manager...
...could make laughter, but not without opening a wound. "Truth is the most valuable thing we have," Twain wrote. "Let us economize it." "To be good is noble, but to show others how to be good is nobler-and no trouble." "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between...