Word: wound
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clock wound down. With three minutes remaining, Harvard began to march down the field. Runners made sharp cuts and wore for good yardage. The quarterback began hitting receivers in full stride, almost at will. With ten seconds left and 11 yards to go for the winning touchdown, the team in the gold pants and crimson jerseys finally scored. A quick pass over the middle hit a linebacker's helmet and fell into the hands of an end, sprawled on the ground with a pulled hamstring muscle...
Certainly, the atmosphere was encouraging. Friday night at Camp David, the Carters and a few other U.S. officials dropped in on the Israeli delegation for what was expected to be a brief courtesy call. Both the President and Rosalynn wound up staying two hours, singing sabbath songs and eating a kosher meal catered from Washington. Sunday, after Carter attended Baptist services at the camp, he gave Begin and Sadat a tour of the battlefield at Gettysburg...
...totally materialistic. The West ended up by truly enforcing human rights, sometimes even excessively, but man's sense of responsibility to God and society grew dimmer and dimmer. In the past decades, the legalistically self aspect of Western approach and thinking has reached its final dimension and the world wound up in a harsh spiritual crisis and a political impasse. All the glorified technological achievements of Progress, including the conquest of outer space, do not redeem the 20th Century's moral poverty, which no one could imagine even as late as in the 19th Century...
...destination unique and his route even more so, Brown nevertheless seized the opportunity with talent. After a shabby first two games, Brownie clicked and wound up the season leading the Ivies in both passing and total offense, but surprisingly did not make the All-Ivy squad...
...investigation was wound up in December 1975. A full report was given to Franklin Murphy, an outside director who is chairman of the Ford board's audit committee and also chairman of the Los Angeles Times Mirror Co. Murphy had never authorized the investigation in the first place. The elaborate examination produced no damaging information about Iacocca. According to his friends, lacocca is enraged by the thought that people within the company may be spreading rumors concerning his personal life and finances...