Word: wound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Trailing 5-4 after two periods, McGinty tied the match with an escape 20 seconds into the final frame. As time wound down, the match seemed destined to be a draw, but a determined McGinty took down Gunderson with one second left--good for a 17-10 Harvard lead...
...priestess Salammbo danced to the seductive warbling of a flute, her long white dress slowly fell to the ground, and she stood naked before the sacred python. Taking the serpent in her arms, she "wound it round her waist, under her arms, between her knees . . . Salammbo gasped beneath this weight . . . her back bent, she felt she was dying; and with the tip of its tail it gently flicked her thigh...
...compounds have been found to be superconductors near that temperature extreme. The only practical way to make something that cold is to bathe it in liquid helium, which exists only at temperatures below 4 K. But helium is rare, and expensive to liquefy. Even so, the efficiency of electromagnets wound with superconducting wires is so great that in certain situations the expense is justified...
...physicians and another were imprisoned for giving medical service to a man who came to them with a gunshot wound claiming to be an innocent bystander at the robbery of a bakery...
Gorbachev was just getting wound up. In cool and firm tones, with uncommon candor, he rattled off a long catalog of abuses of the system. He charged that...