Word: wound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Greece he will disappear behind bars -- or be murdered and declared a suicide and thus be unable to present his own version of what happened. He figures his fate in Greece will be worse if Papandreou remains in power; so his motive for speaking may also be to wound the government...
...Mass. Ave. church was holding a benefit dance for Salvadoran emigres when a fight developed between Parada and 22-year-old Marcus U. Reyes, according to police. Later that night. Reves was brought to Mount Auburn Hospital with a fatal stab wound to the chest, police said...
Another battle film helped Mississippi Burning come to life. Two years ago Orion's Platoon ripped the scabs off the wound of Viet Nam, copped lots of Oscars and grossed close to $300 million worldwide. Any successful movie creates a new market, and studios -- especially Orion, which has a rep for taking chances on political pictures -- were soon scrambling for the next Platoon. Cynicism is served with a twist in Hollywood, and Mississippi Burning has taken its licks as a ready-made Big Issue blockbuster. Before its release, even Hackman gibed that its producers "looked at how much Platoon made...
...returning from an evening at the Atlantic City blackjack tables and, as his story went, their car may have been tampered with and then followed by bandits. Marshall said a wad of bills amounting to more than $2,000 was missing from his pocket. He displayed a superficial head wound...
President Mikhail S. Gorbachev wound up a two-day visit to the disaster area, calling the situation in Armenia "a grave disaster, simply a tragedy...