Word: wound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Between those parentheses, she ransacked the temples of Hellenic culture, switched from dresses to togas and from shoes to scandals. In Amer ica, the bourgeois dismissed her as a wan ton. It was in Europe that she won her recognition - and lost her life when her trailing scarf wound around a racing-car wheel. Her last words seem written in art-nouveau script: "Adieu, mes amis, je vais à la gloire...
...Nigeria, checked federal claims in Lagos against observable fact in Biafra. He carefully outlined his own clear conclusions in a long four-part series for the London Times. Churchill had started with the impression that starvation was exaggerated, bombing of civilians a myth and a federal victory imminent. He wound up appalled at the extent of the Ibo people's suffering and amazed at their ability to hold off the better-armed federal troops. Moreover, he blasted Britain for supplying those arms...
After a successful regular season, the Harvard fencing team wound up in a disappointing eighth place in the three-weapon Intercollegiate Fencing Championships this weekend at New York University...
...usual run of Irish jokes and Polish jokes and Jewish jokes. But the star of the annual Circus Saints and Sinners show was a tall guy with a lopsided grin who told a few on himself. "In case you have forgotten, I'm the man who wound up a little more than 300,000 heartbeats from the presidency," quipped Senator Edmund Mus-Icie, the guest of honor. However, he pointed out, "There's only one thing lower than a defeated candidate for Vice President-and that's a successful one." Besides, "I have some reason to believe...
...Where are you wounded?" he asked me. I pointed out my wound to him. The Pig of Pigs looked down at my wound, raised his foot and stomped on the wound...