Word: wound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turned out, it took five days to get my electricity and water, but I figured I had scored a great victory. A week later I was told they had re-examined the question and didn't have enough money to pay for it after all. So I wound up paying for it myself...
...Oklahoma's hearty Governor Henry Bellmon, 44, running around the island of Kyushu handing out Japanese-language recipes for "Okrahoma" pecan pie. The mystified Japanese smiled politely, and finally someone pointed out that hardly anyone in Japan had ever heard of pecan pie. Well, boomed Bellmon as he wound up a U.S.-Japan Governors' conference tour, "that's all the more reason to push it. Why, man, this is virgin country for Oklahoma pecans...
Thus, at long last, Congress wound up a first session whose record of legislative achievement (see box) was unsurpassed in bulk or scope by that of any other Congress in U.S. history -even by Franklin Roosevelt's celebrated 73rd. In a heartfelt thank-you message to his congressional lieutenants, Lyndon Johnson predicted: "What you have done will find a shining residence in the history books...
Several muggings have occurred previously this year but none has been as serious as the one Tuesday night. Charles C. Vines Jr. '66 suffered a chest wound and was operated on early Wednesday morning for a collapsed right lung. Peter N. Mear '66 was treated for incerations of the face, chest, and back...
...Gurion thereupon, in the interests of securing "justice" for Lavon, broke with Mapai, taking with him a handful of younger politicians including Agriculture Minister Moshe Dayan, 50, and Deputy Defense Minister Shimon Peres, 42-and wound up naming a complete, 120-man list of candidates for the Knesset. Furious, Eshkol has fought back with the full force of the Mapai organization and with scathing newspaper advertisements that denounce "the old man at Sde Boker" as the prophet who, in the Talmudic phrase, "prophesied and knew not whereof he prophesied...