Word: wound
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Franklin could not quite get the edge on Mark Nigosian and wound up on the short side of a 14-13 score. Next, Cornell's second co-captain, John Paladino, held on for a 4-3 victory over Cimmarusti. The Crimson grappler kept Paladino in a headlock for almost three minutes but could not score...
Chrysler started the model-year with only one new name plate and wound up 1977 with about 10% of the market, its lowest share since the early '60s. But the company has high hopes for its Omni compact, which made its debut last week. At a list of $3,706, the Omni is Detroit's first front-wheel-drive car with a transverse engine, and has earned Motor Trend magazine's "car of the year" award, which is usually a boost for sales...
...Tanzer, 72, now a professor emeritus at Dartmouth Medical College. The basic principle is to use one or two pieces of cartilage, 4 to 5 in. (10 to 13 cm.) long, taken from the patient's own ribs. This causes no disability. While an assistant closes the chest wound, Brent carves and molds the cartilage into an approximation of the ultimate desired shape for the new ear. Then he makes a pocket from the skin where the ear should be and slips the cartilage into...
...power. It was easily pierced by the tragedy and misfortune of others, but it possessed marvelous powers of recuperation. When the world thunked him hard, as it did that night in West Virginia when he lost the critical presidential primary to John Kennedy, he was an open wound for a few minutes. But then he gathered himself up in that moth-eaten room of the old Ruffner Hotel, went over and fixed himself a salami sandwich from the table of things he had personally bought for the victory celebration. He began right then to climb out of defeat back...
Will it? That raises the question of why the world's most powerful economy has wound up with one of the world's weakest currencies. In part, the dollar's fall has been a price that the U.S. has paid for expanding its economy faster than have other industrial nations. More important, the dollar turmoil is a delayed effect of the quintupling of oil prices during...