Word: wounded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years the Pentagon has quietly conducted "wound care" experiments on live animals at four laboratories around the country to help train doctors for combat duty. A fifth such center was to open next month at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md. Called the Wound Laboratory, the $70,000, 50-ft.-long firing range would have received 75 pigs for its initial experiments and, thereafter, up to 80 dogs a year. The plan: to anesthetize or restrain the animals, shoot them in the hind legs, and then let 150 military doctors treat the wounds. Once treated...
...owns a male collie named Kilty, issued a terse one-line statement banning all Department of Defense dog shootings. Next a presumably weary Weinberger ordered a broad review of the Pentagon's use of animals in medical research and directed that no animals could be used for wound research until the study was completed...
...hotel was her first opportunity in several months to eat full meals and to take showers. The Lebanese people in general were astonishingly magnanimous, even mirthful, amid the postwar rubble; but Lulla was tired and alone. En route to the airport on our last day, our bus wound through Palestinian refugee camps and verdant fields pierced by the sounds of artillery practice. I listened unblinkingly as the old woman urged me to center my life around a devoted husband and family so that I didn't end up forsaken like herself. The predictability of her advice was irritating...
...five hours for an August concert. Frontier Booking, New Music's hottest agency, will put 20 bands on the road this summer, twice as many as last year. The Liverpool group A Flock of Seagulls, for instance, arrived last year planning to give just a dozen concerts, and wound up touring for six months...
Liberty. There was Eddie, the bosun's mate from Brooklyn, talking with a reporter before he even got well into his second sixpack. "You were so wound up, you'd be screaming at your buddy over nothing," Eddie was saying. "Your buddy! All you could think about was getting off that ship." Eddie wasn't any more conspicuous than anybody else on the streets of Key West. They made everybody stay in full uniform. And out on the Margaritaville scene, the military was the only presence with the posture of a T square. Standing there on Duval...