Word: wound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Buzzing with Rumors.With 27,500 Americans already in Viet Nam-a 50% increase since the Tonkin Gulf crisis of August, the U.S. may well expand that force still further. After Army Chief of Staff General Harold K. Johnson wound up an eight-day tour of Viet Nam, Saigon began buzzing with rumors that a beefed-up U.S. Army division of nearly 20,000 men might be sent over to guard key bases. The fact that 6,000 marines were moved out of Hawaii last week to replace the 3,500 who landed in Viet Nam might indicate further leatherneck reinforcements...
...ballots had been counted, Frei's Christian Democrats had won 82 Deputies' seats a gam of 53, making it the first government party to win an absolute majority since 1851. In the Senate, where 21 of 45 seats were at stake, the Christian Democrats wound up with 13 seats, up from only four...
...feel that this man, in eight or ten minutes, can defend me," Maidonado protested, after a court had assigned a Legal Aid Society lawyer to handle his latest trial for burglary. "I want to act as my own attorney." The judge refused the request. Maldonado wound up in Sing Sing prison. But U.S District Judge Charles H. Tenney granted Maldonado a conditional writ of habeas corpus on the ground that "one of the most fundamental prerequisites of a fair trial is the right of the accused to defend himself either in person or by counsel of his own choosing." Failing...
Singer argued that a defendant can act in his best interests, but Warren ruled that "the ability to waive a constitutional right does not ordinarily carry with it the right to insist upon the opposite of that right." When the prosecutor insisted on jury trial, Singer wound up with "the very thing that the Constitution guarantees...
Pince-nez aquiver on his nose, the elegant banker leaned across the wood-inlaid desk in his Zurich office last week and complained: "We have been called Shylocks, gnomes, sinister manipulators -even greedy thieves. These campaigns really wound us. At times it makes one melancholy...