Word: wounded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hospital was a dump," he says. "That was when I cried. I had to beg for a wheelchair. The physical therapy program was a joke." The wound he suffered at the forgotten hill in the Central Highlands left him paralyzed, but the wounds he incurred at home galvanized him into action. Says he: "I had always been respectful to authority. Now I knew that I either had to fight these guys or let them control...
...grass the big lion lay, flattened out along the ground. His ears were back and his only movement was a slight twitching up and down of his long, black tail. He had turned at bay as soon as he had reached this cover and he was sick with the wound through his full belly, and weakening with the wound from his lungs that brought a thin foamy red to his mouth each time he breathed. His flanks were wet and hot and flies were on the little openings the solid bullets had made in his tawny hide...
...based on a principle of retribution. A murder victim's relatives could kill the murderer after obtaining permission from a religious judge. In case of mayhem, the victim could inflict on his assailant a comparable injury, which must be exactly similar in "width and length" to the original wound. The code covers a number of contingencies: "For the severance of a right hand, the assailant's right hand must be severed. If the assailant does not have a right hand, his left hand may be severed. If he does not have a left hand either, his foot...
...mandate, and what it really means, was not entirely clear even to the French, who delight in precise analysis. The most likely explanation was that the French, alarmed by rising inflation and unemployment, and tired of Gisçard's imperial style, had simply voted for change and thus wound up with François Mitterrand in the Elysée. At that point, according to this view, the logical French gave the new President a clear-cut Socialist majority in order to avoid a constitutional deadlock or a messy coalition with the Communists. "Having opted for change, French voters knew enough...
...booked only half-full for next month, a disappointment to the government, which had expected a crush of tourists for the royal wedding on July 29. By hyping the wedding as the tourist draw of a lifetime, Britons may unintentionally have scared off many would-be visitors who wound up worrying about overcrowded pubs and scarce hotel rooms. "The American tourist is intelligent," says British Travel Consultant Verite George. "Why should he come here for a big event and pay double for a hotel room when he can watch it all on TV and come over in September...