Word: wound
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that. Christina Onassis had opposed the marriage in the first place, friends say, and called Jackie "an opportunist." By the time her father died, her feelings were such that she stopped the funeral motorcade and changed cars to avoid riding with Jackie. When the estate was settled, Christina wound up with a big chunk of it and Jackie received $250,000 a year (including $50,000 for her two children by J.F.K.). But Christina later decided to contest the terms of the will to get more, and so Jackie, feeling liberated from the constraints of her premarital agreement, asked...
...boom, cost-conscious colleges, like airlines overbooking, vastly overaccepted students last spring in an effort to insure enough. When fewer freshmen than usual decided to switch schools at the last minute-coupled with an unexpected back-to-campus movement by upperclassmen newly eager for the convenience of dorms-colleges wound up with too many bodies and too few bunks. Some results: barracks-style living, in which students are forced to double up or bed down in hastily converted storerooms or noisy antechambers...
...armed convoy that wound its way through Cologne's streets last week was bringing well-known Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer, 62, home from his downtown office. Suddenly the blue Mercedes carrying Schleyer screeched to a halt in order to avoid crashing into a yellow sedan that was blocking half the street and a baby carriage that had rolled across the other half. Sensing danger, the driver of the convoy's second car pulled up behind Schleyer's auto. As three of the bodyguards jumped out, they and Schleyer's chauffeur were mowed down by at least...
Last year the racquetwomen enjoyed a successful fall but suffered once the flowers were in bloom. After sporting a 7-2 mark for September and October, Wynn point out that Radcliffe "couldn't get things together in the spring, and we wound up losing some close matches" for a 3-5 spring slate...
Sixteen innings 0-0. That was the way the last game of the series between the Sox and Athletics wound up. People who left the park at the finish, four minutes before 7 o'clock, did not regret the loss of supper half as much as they would have regretted missing that ball game...