Word: woundedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shot to death in his driveway, allegedly by a former Scout leader who was having an affair with his wife. How about the middle-aged beautician in Florida who used to hang out at a bar called Madge's? Gave a ride to a drifter one night and wound up with her throat slashed and her body dumped by the railroad tracks. Then there's the Garden Grove, Calif., teenager convicted of shooting her stepmother to death. Now she claims she was coaxed into making a false confession by her father, who, she says, committed the crime in cahoots with...
Sophocles wrote of an archer named Philoctetes, who was bitten by a serpent and whose wound would not heal. His countrymen were so discomforted by his injury and his anguished cries that they marooned the war hero on a desolate island. That is one way to deal with the suffering: remove them from sight. There are many like Philoctetes in America, citizens cast out from public consciousness because their medical problems seem too painful or costly to face. Among them: 37 million Americans who have no health insurance, a million young women too poor to provide adequate prenatal care...
...Roman Catholics between the official church and Aristide's "prophetic" wing. Both work for human rights and justice, but the official church, which led the nonviolent popular uprising that forced Duvalier to flee, insists on orderly and deliberate change. The church's internal conflict has become yet another wound in Haiti's suffering and demoralized society...
...Dukakis wound up a trip to Missouri by suggesting his campaign could be struck by the same political lightning that returned favorite son Harry Truman to the White House...
Aided by the wind, the Crimson peppered the Yale net with shots in the first half, but Murphy was able to turn them all away. Harvard wound up outshooting the Elis in the match by a whopping 32-11 margin...