Word: wound
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After the war Thomas became an "academic tramp." His momentum carried him away from the practice of medicine and toward research, teaching and administration. He wound steadily up the helix of professional advancement: research at Johns Hopkins, teaching at Tulane and the University of Minnesota. Back in New York, he moved through lower posts to become dean of the New York University medical school. In 1969 Thomas moved to Yale as a professor and chairman of the medical school's department of pathology; three years later he was named dean of the medical school. He left after a year...
Sputtered an Atlanta TV editorialist: "A lowdown, dirty trick." Said Mayor Maynard Jackson: "This is pouring salt in the wound." Because of budget problems, Atlanta's men in blue have been receiving meager raises. In addition, a suit filed by black officers in 1973 claiming illegal discrimination has caused a hiring freeze, resulting in 220 vacancies on the force. Jackson cabled Houston Mayor James McConn: "Object very strongly...
These days, politics and theology no longer come up for much consideration. Questions raised in the Roches' music are decidedly personal. The songs are sharp and deceptively cool, like being stabbed by an icicle. After a while, the weapon disappears and only the wound remains. Maggie's Damned Old Dog proposes an ironic alternative to womanhood ("Do I wanna be a dog?/ any diddlin' male would do/ . . . Limpin' around in the moonlight/ coverin' up what I did"). The Married Men is a confession in cameo that cuts neatly both ways. "One says...
Yale, the Crimson's opponents next weekend, wound up in last place with three (count 'em) points...
...saleswoman in a Salisbury shop catering to whites. Five years ago, she was one of 86 students jammed aboard a school bus near the Mozambique border. The bus was blown apart by a mine; 80 died. The girl was hospitalized for two months with multiple fractures and a puncture wound near her heart. She had been back in her boarding school only a week when ZANIA guerrillas entered the dormitories one night as the pupils were undressing for bed. Three hundred children-some naked, others in nightdress-were marched off in one of the first abductions...