Word: wounded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...With considerable bravado, he described the ambush. "My first reaction was to get out of the car, but then I thought of my grandson at my side and covered his body with mine," he said. He displayed for the viewers a bandaged left hand, the result of a slight wound from flying glass...
...Guess what happened to a friend of a friend of mine"), an ironic twist worthy of O. Henry and a lack of factual foundation combined with a seductive plausibility. The hardiest perennials include "The Choking Doberman," a gruesome tale synthesized from two old legends: "The Witch and the Telltale Wound" and "The Misunderstood Pet." In the modern version, a woman returns home to find her Doberman choking. After two severed fingers are discovered in the dog's throat, the police are summoned. In a closet they find a cowering burglar trying to stanch the flow of blood from his mutilated...
...last week what couldn't be done cleared its last major hurdle. In a series of tense meetings that began Tuesday night and wound up shortly before 5 a.m. Saturday, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Bob Packwood and House Ways and Means Chief Dan Rostenkowski compromised on the last significant differences between the versions passed by the House last December and the Senate in June. Then came a day of nerve-jangling negotiations selling the deal to the other 20 members of the House-Senate conference committee (ten from each chamber). Finally the full committee gave its stamp of approval Saturday...
...G.I.s aboard did what soldiers going to war always do: they wrote a lot of letters home. Some of them never got there: to be exact, 235 letters to 117 addresses in 34 states from 93 servicemen. For reasons that may never be known, this batch of V-mail wound up in an attic in Raleigh, N.C., in the house of an aunt of a serviceman. Mixed in with some old socks in an Army duffel bag, they were discovered in June by Michael Minguez, an exterminator, and turned over to Raleigh Postmaster Ross Garulski. Last week during a ceremony...
...since 1962 has been waging a low- level guerrilla war from bases in neighboring states. South Africa has effectively neutralized the A.N.C. through agreements, economic pressure and occasional cross-border military strikes. While terror bombings take place and mines, hand grenades and AK-47 assault rifles still kill and wound South Africans, mostly in township violence, the flow of weapons into the country is not enough for an armed insurrection...