Word: wounded
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When politically beleaguered George Keverian '53 (D-Everett), speaker of the state House of Representatives, wound his way through a crowd of supporters to the podium at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge last week to announce his bid for treasurer, an elaborate speaker system belted out the title theme to Raiders of the Lost...
Drexel's most egregious technique was to force companies into unwanted deals, executives say. In one battle that wound up in court, Staley Continental, a food producer based in suburban Chicago, accused Drexel of trying to pressure Staley executives into launching a buyout bid for their company. Before Staley's $220 million suit reached an out-of-court settlement in 1988, the sensational charges were the talk of Wall Street. "They appealed to your greed," says Robert Hoffman, who was Staley's chief financial officer at the time. "And if that didn't work, they appealed to your fear that...
...meeting, radical-minded reformers staged their most impressive political strike so far. Indeed, it is difficult to come up with anything comparable since the early years of the Bolshevik regime. A crowd of more than 200,000 wound its way through the center of Moscow to the very shadow of the Kremlin walls for a rally promoting democratic change. The message was clear from the banners bobbing above the marchers: SOVIET COMMUNIST PARTY, WE'RE TIRED OF YOU! . . . AWAY WITH LIGACHEV AND HIS CLIQUE . . . 72 YEARS ON THE ROAD TO NOWHERE. If reform-shy regional party secretaries gathered...
...Brady knows the importance of a waiting period. He knows the living hell of a gunshot wound. Jim and I are not afraid to take on the N.R.A. leaders, and we will fight them everywhere we can. As Jim said in his congressional testimony, "I don't question the rights of responsible gun owners. That's not the issue. The issue is whether the John Hinckleys of the world should be able to walk into gun stores and purchase handguns instantly. Are you willing and ready to cast a vote for a commonsense public-safety bill endorsed by experts...
...street signs or landmarks in a city where he had lived and worked all his life. During the conversation with the dispatcher, he never tried to comfort his wife, never called her name. In the ambulance to the hospital, he only asked about the seriousness of his own wound, and never about his wife's condition...