Word: wound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although George Bush and Pat Robertson have declared a truce in the G.O.P. presidential campaign, Republicans in North Carolina's Fourth Congressional District apparently did not get the word. A gathering in sleepy Franklin County to pick three delegates to the national convention wound up as the Battle of Louisburg. Fists flailed, noses bled, bodies flew off the stage...
Bochco broke into TV with a summer job at Universal studios and wound up spending twelve years there, turning out scripts for shows like Columbo and McMillan and Wife. In 1978 he moved to MTM Enterprises, the studio started by Grant Tinker and his then wife Mary Tyler Moore. After a couple of failed series, Bochco and another MTM writer, Michael Kozoll, were asked by NBC to develop a police series with a human touch. They came up with Hill Street Blues, which debuted in January 1981. Though ratings were low at first, NBC stuck with the show; it went...
...Deep down inside," says Joe Morgan, the black second baseman whose splendid career wound down with the Robinson Giants, "I think it's true that he was hoping for and expecting more from us. We all like to say we give 100%, but a baseball player can always take another step somewhere along the line. The black players weren't fair to him in Cleveland; I'll leave it at that. And ! some of our guys let him down too, if you want to know the truth of it. When I heard about the Baltimore job, I almost sent Frank...
Flustered and unfamiliar with the ways of Wall Street, Miller's regime wound up paying Steinberg $52 million in greenmail to sell back his Disney stock and let them alone. But the company's weakened condition gave Roy Disney the leverage he needed to push for a new slate of leaders. One of his informal advisers had been Frank Wells, a former vice chairman of Warner Bros., who had taken time out from show business to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents (he had to turn back 3,000 ft. below the summit of Mount Everest...
...kill for the sake of greater profits. Children of the underclass, weaned on violence and despair, have become bloodthirsty entrepreneurs. Some have made small fortunes marketing the cheap, explosive cocaine derivative -- known as "rock" in L.A. -- while settling business differences with state-of-the-art firearms. Many more have wound up in prison or the graveyard...