Word: wounded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wound through the canyons southwest of Mount Shasta, 60 miles below the Oregon border, the Sacramento River was a babbling stream, rugged enough to attract kayakers, yet so pristine that it supported a thriving population of blue-ribbon trout. Each year the 45-mile stretch of river lured thousands of anglers and tourists, drawn by the bucolic setting and the reputation of its native rainbows and browns...
...revered sheik wound up at the center of a global scam...
Regarding Henry, Mike Nichols' effective, infuriating new weepie, works a cunning variation on the born-again theme. It eliminates the middleman, Death, by subjecting Henry Turner (Harrison Ford) to a gunshot wound that erases his memory. Bang!, you're a new man. The old one needed some revision. That Henry was a slick Manhattan lawyer who misused his gifts to ruin innocent men and save venal corporations. Instructed by his chic wife (Annette Bening) to apologize to their 11-year-old daughter (Mikki Allen), Henry instead scolds the dear girl in Latin. The guy barely deserves to live, until...
...such deaths rose to more than 450 per year in Romania as the backalley business took hold. Infant mortality rates jumped as well, over the short term as well as long term, and fetal death rates rose dramatically too. What started out as a drive to save babies wound up killing more than before...
...husbands, 26 other states hover in a gray zone: without gross brutality, the husband has the benefit of the doubt. If prosecutors decide they have enough for a case, ( however, they usually win; between 1978 and 1985, only 118 cases of spousal rape went to trial, but 104 wound up with a conviction...