Word: wounded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jirmanus's Yerma retains our attention for the duration of the play; striking precisely the right balance between Yerma's haunting desires and the earthy reality of her everyday life, she manages to retain our interest and sympathy even as her essentially unchanging character becomes more and more tightly wound up, more despairing, more obsessed...
...think it helps people not to get too wound up," Herschbach said. "To stand back now and then and see we are engaged in a human comedy in many ways...
When the formal summit wound up, it was on to the joint press conference, which turned out to be one of the most extraordinary heads-of-state shows ever. Instead of the usual bland papering over of disputes, this turned into a public argument on human rights, with the journalists looking on almost as spectators. Some U.S. officials had predicted that the press conference would let Americans see just how difficult the Chinese can be to deal with and how strange the world looks from Beijing's perspective. That was how it turned...
...China joined the U.S. in a Security Council statement threatening Iraq with "serious consequences" if it expelled the Americans. "Saddam Hussein has shot himself in the foot again," said State Department spokesman James Rubin, "and it doesn't seem like there's much of his foot left." His wound was far from fatal, however. Russia, which has veto rights in the council, still opposes military strikes or even more sanctions. If the U.S. decides to punch Saddam again, there may not be as many allies in America's corner...
...race, 26.2 miles in length, wound through all five boroughs of drizzly New York City, following crowd-lined streets bedecked with balloons and banners...