Word: woundedly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...year your aides and friends have been telling you to show your passion. But after three years of sentiments and feelings from the White House, the whole country hungers for logic. (And in any case, every time your staff tried to make you show passion, you wound up pounding the lectern--"Have you no shame, Hollywood?" "Liberal judges!"--and looking not serious but fierce, dark, censorious.) You can demonstrate the quality of your thinking and temperament by spending the next six months speaking clearly to the American people--by trusting them with your thoughts. Which is not something...
...world's largest producers of a recombinant vaccine against hepatitis B. It is the only producer of a vaccine against the bacterium that causes meningitis B, a particularly nasty form of the disease. It also makes a diverse line of pharmaceuticals: interferon for cancer treatment, epidermal growth factor for wound healing, streptokinase for heart attacks and monoclonal antibodies capable of diagnosing everything from pregnancy to infection with the AIDS virus...
...well, because he's the publisher of Cigar Aficionado. "I didn't think about what it would cost me," he says. "I only thought that I wanted it very badly." He expected to "pay a lot," he says, "but to me a lot was under $100,000." He wound up shelling out $574,500. Berle himself joined in the bidding for the humidor, which cost him $800 in 1961, but dropped out at $180,000. "Who knew at that time," he said of the days when he occasionally lunched and smoked with J.F.K. and contributed gag lines here and there...
After that, it seemed to some that things pretty much went to hell in the country at large, although Jackie lived on in glamorous and very public seclusion, and a lot of boomers wound up making a lot of money. Jackie's death two years ago saddened everyone, but it also reminded the boomers that they were entering their 50s and being crowded from below by younger people with different cultural experiences and no special fondness for the shared memories of their elders. The Jackie auction promised an opportunity to halt the slide toward death and anonymity, to grab some...
...April 26, 1986 the blast at unit no. 4 caused a nuclear meltdown, with blazes burning at temperatures of up to 5000 Fahrenheit, or twice that of molten steel. The reactor burned for two weeks slowly releasing dangerous radioactivity into the air. The radiation, carried by the wind, wound its lethal path across the Soviet Union's best farmland north toward Scandinavia. By week's end, an ominous pall of radiation had spread across Eastern Europe and toward the shores of the Mediterranean. The fallout caused an international uproar against the Soviet Union for its lax safety measures...