Word: wounded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chess game in which the stakes are life or death for more than Joan. Compared of course to the virile mace-work of George Bernard Shaw in his Saint Joan, it is sometimes oversubtle rapier play in the Gallic fashion that scores points but does not really make a wound. The actors, however, under brilliant coaching by Director Joseph Anthony, use their weapons with such skill and fury that the beholder can often mistake words for swords. In all, the play lacks the emotional substance of important drama, but it has the cerebral excitement and the visual flair of superior...
...chance to suffer the unhappy childhood she had been denied, and she suffered it right down to her dirty toes. As she splattered through her supper, grumped at cards, slashed about the kitchen with a carving knife or preened luridly in a grown-up's party dress, the wound of adolescence opened slowly on the stage for all to see. At season's end she got a Donaldson award as the year's best supporting actress. A year later she went to Hollywood to make the movie version...
...hurried to the nearby Radcliffe medical center, where, despite an obvious amount of blood, I was refused treatment by the secretary on the grounds that "We don't treat you here. It's the rules." She further refused to provide a temporary dressing, saying that the more the wound was touched, the more germs it would pick up. I walked to Stillman on her advice, where I was bandaged and, since no doctor was in attendance, given car fare to the Hygiene Building. About one half hour after the accident I received treatment in the form of two stitches...
...direct result of this conversation Crimson harriers ran this fall against teams from Springfield, and Washington and Lee. The jayvees defeated both squads; the freshman B team wound up its telegraphic season with a 1-1 record, losing to Springfield and beating Washington...
...Public Health Service wound up its study of the Cutter vaccine "incident" (TIME, Sept. 5) with a report that has now found live polio virus of the most dangerous strain (Mahoney, of Type I) in all six of the suspected batches of vaccine; also, Type II was found in one lot and Type III in two more. Of the 401,000 vaccinated with Cutter material, 79 got polio; 90 others were infected by contact with Cutter-vaccinated children...