Word: wounded
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...wishes. Like thousands of young couples unable to conceive a child naturally, Junior and Mary Sue Davis had turned to test-tube fertilization. But when the couple divorced and couldn't agree who should control seven fertilized embryos they had frozen and stored in a Tennessee clinic, the Davises wound up in the Supreme Court. Junior Davis had requested that the embryos be destroyed, asserting his own "reproductive rights." His ex-wife claimed a right to her "offspring." In refusing Mary Sue Davis' appeal to implant the embryos in her womb, the court decided that Junior Davis' right...
...Dartmouth goalie Mike Bracco was equally asleep at the switch at his own end--on three separate occasions, his misplays of Harvard clearing attempts almost wound up behind him for goals...
George Bush--expected to be a Reaganomics disciple--proved himself more similar to Carter than to Reagan. Bush didn't continue the program of low taxes and decreased government intervention that had produced years of growth. Instead, he reverted to raising income taxes and wound up in a recession. The economic downturn would have been worse if not for Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan, who kept interest rates and inflation...
Bosnia opens a terrible new wound...
...rape works -- sometimes even better than killing does. Killing may make martyrs, and thus inspirit and strengthen the morale and solidarity of the victims. Rape, on the other hand, not only defiles and shatters the individual woman but, especially in traditional societies, also administers a grave, long-lasting wound to morale and identity. Rape penetrates the pride and cohesion of a people and corrodes its future. When a woman is raped in war, she and her family and ultimately her community internalize the assault upon their identity. Rape in war is only sometimes an act of simple lust or sadism...