Word: wound
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard women's tennis team wound up its fall season with a decisive 6-1 victory over local rival Boston College yesterday afternoon at Soldiers Field...
Strindberg was involved in three disastrous marriages that nearly broke his ever precarious hold on sanity. Only his ability to transmute his inner torment into dramatic art saved him. His is a classic case of what Edmund Wilson called "the wound and the bow." From the suppurating wound of his domestic life, as un-healing as was the eagle-torn liver of Prometheus, he gathered the strength to draw the bow of craft, passion and insight and to launch an arrow of dramatic significance that is still in flight more than half a century after his death...
...expedition provided a spontaneous display not only of the ruins but also of the needs and hopes of the American underclass. "Tell him we need money. Send us money!" people at street corners shouted as the caravan wound through often semideserted streets. "Give me a job, man, I need a job!" one person yelled. At his second stop, Carter told Mrs. Harris, "I would like to see what can be salvaged and what can't be salvaged, and take these buildings down and start turning it around...
...borrowed-into purchases of B & W stock, starting at $42 a share; they quickly bought up more than a quarter of the outstanding shares. Then they sat back happily while United and J. Ray McDermott Inc. made escalating rival offers for a controlling interest in Babcock, and eventually wound up selling out to McDermott for $65 a share. Estimated profit for the lucky gamblers: about $30 million in six months...
...That was when Dartmouth lived true to their old nickname--the Indians--by cutting us up at the pass," lamented coach Bill McCurdy after the meet. "We'd left the women back at the buses and gone out to defend ourselves against the savages, but wound up getting totally scalped," he added...