Word: wound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said he, "that the artist in this country is not protected at all. Nobody takes care of him. He's a kind of black sheep." In the U.S., if a painting clashes with the wallpaper, anybody can paint over it, "even a Cézanne." If the hearing wound up more voluble than valuable, Lipchitz contributed at least one astute observation on why his colleagues feel pushed around. "You have to count with the nature of the artist," said the sculptor. "We are all more or less schlemiels...
...department and bacteriology laboratory were demolished. In the main hospital building, two patients were injured. But assistance by a surgical team from the Army 3rd Field Hospital enabled us to gain "medical control" of the situation by late afternoon the same day. We are small, but wound tight...
...recollection that things have been worse. Riot and rebellion are a student tradition in the Western world; university records from the Middle Ages abound in accounts of pitched battles, rapes and homicides. A proclamation of 1269 denounced the scholars of Paris who "by day and night atrociously wound and slay many, carry off women, ravish virgins, and break into houses...
Last season, counting a 17-game South American tour on behalf of the State Department, St. Joe's won 42 out of 46 games, wound up No. 3 in the nation. Last week, after six games of the 1965-66 season, the Hawks were up to No. 2-and even that seemed like an insult, looking at the records of their rivals. U.C.L.A., picked by most experts to win its third straight N.C.A.A. championship, dropped two games in a row to Duke. Duke thereby jumped all the way from No. 6 to No. 1, despite a loss to unranked...
...that that's much trouble for Steve Kaplan's Ko-ko. Kaplan, who assumed a full lotus position at one point, wound himself around the stage. This bumbling hero writhed, dived, lurched, smirked, and stayed alive even to the bitter end. When he was on the stage with Michael Sargent, the pace quickened and the laughter was ready for them before they opened their mouths. Sargent was Poo-bah, the Lord High Everything Else, a tall, grumbling hypocrit he portrayed almost perfectly. When he smiled a rare smile, he wrinkled every patch of skin...