Word: wounded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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JERRY LEE LEWIS: ROCKIN' MY LIFE AWAY (Warner Bros.). A sweet combo indeed: 20 Killer sessions, vintage '78-'80, that wound up on several obscure albums, now resurrected and sounding spanking fresh. Terrific backcountry blues, closing out with a roadhouse version of Over the Rainbow that's as poignant as it is audacious...
...from East Islip tried to get his friends to gang tackle me, but wound up sucking some major league snow himself," Tepedino said a few minutes later with a sinister grin...
...Fuchida's bombers kept pounding the helpless battlewagons. The West Virginia took six torpedoes, then two bombs. One large piece of shrapnel smashed into the starboard side of the bridge and tore open the stomach of the skipper, Captain Mervyn Bennion. A medic patched up the dying man's wound, and a husky black mess steward, Doris Miller, who had once boxed as the ship's heavyweight champion, helped move the stricken captain to a sheltered spot...
Landing only for more fuel and ammunition, the two sleepless lieutenants set off for the Marine base at Barber's Point. "We went down and got in the traffic pattern and shot down several planes there," said Taylor, who suffered a severe arm wound. "I know for certain I shot down two planes or perhaps more; I don't know." Official records credited the two of them with downing seven planes, almost one-quarter of all Japanese losses...
While the gulf war forced Israel and its Arab neighbors to the same side of the barricades, the alliance was temporary. The Arab-Israeli conflict remains a festering wound that prevents all the nations of the region from concentrating on economic and political improvement. The enmity bars Arab states from fully embracing Washington. It continues to spawn terrorist attacks throughout the region, including strikes on American targets like last week's rocket hit on the U.S. embassy in Beirut. And it compels Washington to remain fixated on Israel's security, a posture that fuels anti-American sentiment -- and costs...