Word: wounded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lobby quickly filled with reporters, politicians, black leaders and pajama-clad patients, several of them in wheelchairs. Jesse Jackson suggested, despite a total lack of evidence, that Jordan might have been the first on an assassin's "hit list" of black leaders. Jackson maintained that Jordan's wound was "seemingly well placed by a professional, which is a political statement." He called on the nation's blacks to stay calm. Said Jackson: "We don't want another 1968 [when riots followed King's murder]. We need leadership. We must respond to this crisis with jobs...
Many of the twists and turns indicated that the voters were not greatly enamored of any of the choices placed before them. Though-and maybe because -Carter and Reagan won big enough early enough to settle matters quickly, the campaign wound down in a mood of sullen discontent. Turnouts have dwindled to as low as 11% of the registered voters in the Michigan Republican primary two weeks ago, a shocking figure by any standards. "Uncommitted" polled a third of the votes in the Nevada Democratic primary last week. More than half the voters are telling pollsters that they wish there...
While nature's gifts keep California's agriculture in bloom, the state's aerospace industry has faced problems. California's contractors took more than a decade to recover fully from the industry's last depression when the Apollo space program wound down, and Lockheed and McDonnell Douglas are still facing stiff head winds in the commercial jet market. But the state has maintained its 20% share of all defense contracts. Aerospace firms have such a choking backlog of orders that even an immediate decision to speed up defense spending would not result in any surge...
...Radcliffe heavyweight crew displayed awesome raw power this spring in thundering to impressive victories over MIT, Dartmouth, BU, NU, Princeton, Cornell and Yale. But at the Eastern Sprints championships on Connecticut's Lake Waramug, the heavies' comeback effort fell just short and they wound up second a fraction of a second behind an upstart Penn boat...
Eventually, the proposal wound its way through the Appropriations Committee, but not without carrying an amendment by Sen. Mark O. Hatfield (R-Ore.) asking registrants whether they would be conscientious objectors...