Word: wound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Northrop Corp. When the hijackers forced everybody into the crash position (head between knees), the 6-ft. 4-in. Murry had trouble. "I was hit on the back of the head three times because the hijacker didn't feel my head was low enough." He and seven others wound up in an apartment isolated from the rest, and called themselves "the Crazy Eights" because of their number and the name of the card game they played endlessly...
...righter of past wrongs, an exorcist of guilt, a hero in an age painfully short of them, Rambo has not finished his cinematic job. Stallone is already committed to making Rambo III, and is looking for another "open wound" that Rambo can heal. It could be in Iran, or possibly Afghanistan, but he will be back. "Rambo," says Stallone, "is a war machine that can't be turned...
...aptly epitomized the chaos of Lebanon for Americans last week as the fate of the body of the young man, said by the hijackers to be a U.S. Marine, who had been murdered on Flight 847. After lying on the tarmac for two hours, the body, with a bullet wound in the head, had been taken by an International Red Cross ambulance to a morgue at the American University Hospital in Muslim West Beirut. U.S. officials, based on the other side of the "green line" in Christian-dominated East Beirut, were unable to retrieve it for 24 hours. Not until...
When they got loose and interested, on the other hand, they swapped graphic war stories. "That's an exit wound there, by the way," said Ray Bray, a California police official, as he showed off a color picture of a victim from last summer's mass murder at a McDonald...
Black Sparrow's first book was by a hard-drinking roustabout, Charles Bukowski. Says Martin: "He was the kind of guy that drank in sailors' bars, got into fights with everyone in the room and wound up drinking alone with everyone stretched out on the floor." Between bouts Bukowski wrote terse, explicit poetry and fiction in the self-advertising style of Henry Miller ("The young coeds came up with their hot young bodies and their pilot- light eyes . . ."). Martin offered to pay the author $100 a month if he would quit his postal worker's job and work full time...