Word: wounded
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...cautious as to verge on neutralism. The backdrop to the conflict between the U.S. and Europe is an old skein of misapprehensions and reproaches, failed hopes and even disappointed loves that can only be compared to an ancient family quarrel: tediously familiar, yet ever fresh in its capacity to wound. On both sides of the Atlantic, one regularly hears the ritual incantations about a joint cultural heritage. Yet America is, at most, only partly European. Besides, kith and kin are apt to have harsher conflicts than total strangers. At the outset, America defined itself against Europe (a fact neatly...
...nearly trampled by a gang of passing youths. His wife tried for three hours to get him to a hospital. A five-year-old boy ran into his parents' home crying that he had a terrible pain in his stomach. His mother discovered a gaping bullet wound there. A 17-month-old girl was killed by a shot in the head as she slept outside her family's shanty. As much as an hour passed before her parents discovered what had happened...
...started the season on the bench, suffering with a sore arm. When coach Alex Nahigian gave him his chance after a series of impressive relief appearances, the decision paid off--in spades. The Crimson wound up the season at 24-12, triumphing in a grueling showdown with Cornell and Yale to win the Eastern League, topping perennial power Brandeis to cop the Greater Boston League crown, and only succumbing to St. John's in the NCAA regionals in extra innings--a couple of wins short of the College World Series...
...ammunition. "Let's try an experiment," Loper suggests. "Lie flat on your back on a bench or table. Have a friend--or enemy--take a baseball bat and slam it into your gut with all the force he can. Your skin remains unbroken and there is no wound. Yet you are rolling on the floor, puking, due to energy transmitted via hydrostasis and body reaction. A good hollowpoint does the same thing. IT drills a hole in the body, then gives it s good kick...
...life to totalitarian noncoms is not exactly a month in the country. Lincoln's conscription in the Civil War caused homicidal riots all over the Union. But the American historical memory is not that long. The main reason for the aversion now is the wound of Viet Nam. Especially in an election year, politicians get sweating palms when they think of reawakening all the vivid and articulate rages that Viet Nam called forth, all the dissent that finally calmed in 1973 after the children of the middle class were no longer in danger of flying home in body bags...