Word: wounded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...generation ago to bribe and bayonet its way to domination over what Tokyo's propagandists called the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere," an ambitious civil servant named Nobusuke Kishi became an economic administrator in Manchukuo, then Minister of Commerce and Industry in the Tojo Cabinet, and finally wound up in jail for three years after World War II as a war-criminal suspect. He emerged convinced that though the means had been inept, the aim remained the only solution of Japan's pressing economic problems...
...mirror, slender (137 Ibs.) Dr. Ohmura made a 2-in. vertical incision, helped Takahashi suture the blood vessels. Then, said Ohmura, he sliced into the abdominal muscle, proceeding "exactly as with several hundred appendectomies I have performed." The pain caused by his own finger probing into the wound made him feel faint, but Ohmura fished out the diseased appendix anyway, then "with sweat rolling down my face I gasped to Takahashi, 'Sensei [teacher], let's take a break...
Five minutes later, after another self-administered shot of procaine, Ohmura snipped off the appendix, sutured the wound 50 minutes after he had made it. Home again and healthy a few days later, Ohmura had not proved that Japanese are more dexterous than Westerners (an American surgeon excised his own appendix in 1932 and a Mexican surgeon, from whom Ohmura got the idea, repeated the performance in 1946), but he had clearly demonstrated that they can be at least as eccentric. "I learned one thing," he reflected ruefully. "It really hurt...
Staff members and graduates of the Harvard Psychological Clinic yesterday wound up two days of meetings and reunion parties honoring the Clinic's 30th anniversary. The Clinic is a part of the Social Relations Department, and serves as headquarters for the department's clinical psychologists...
...loss left the Crimson in fifth place in the Ivy League standings, having beaten only Penn. Yale, last year's champion, wound up in third...