Word: wounded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weather turned bad again, but the caravan wound without disaster down a glacier on the edge of the ice cap. The Sno-Cats crossed the last crevasses in a swirling blizzard, and reached fairly level ice. The buildings of Scott Station loomed ahead on the white horizon, with their promise of hot baths and letters from home. When the first congratulations were over. Dr. Fuchs admitted that he had made one miscalculation. He had estimated in advance that he would need 100 days to cross Antarctica; he had made...
...general economic decline, the fact is that the prices contained in the rising Consumer Price Index are not what people really pay. Auto prices last year went up 3-9% at wholesale and 1.5% at retail according to the indexes. But customers got such heavy discounts that they actually wound up paying less than the year before...
...from several insurance companies for injuries to his legs or hands allegedly suffered in California, Louisiana, Ontario, New Jersey and Kentucky. He had had lots of expensive hospital care all over California and in a dozen other . states. Repeatedly he had slashed himself, then ripped the bandages off the wound and torn it open again with his fingers. No doctor had been able to figure out how he managed to spit blood at will...
Australia's national swimming championships last week wound up a season that has left the record books in tatters. In seven weeks of competition, from the big New South Wales state meet to the nationals in Melbourne, Aussie youngsters had splashed to 31 new world marks. The incredible Konrads kids-Ilsa, 13, and John, 15 (TIME, Jan. 20)-accounted for 16 all by themselves. Awed Americans are beginning to wonder whether down-under champions are just born swimming in full career...
...skin disease) localized around the eyes, which has caused opaque corneas; some form of blindness in which bright light is painful (the figure's hat is pulled down over his eyes); atrophy of the eyeballs, probably caused by glaucoma or panophthalmia; corneal leukoma (corneas thickened from an ulcer, wound or inflammation); and enucleation (surgical removal of eyes...