Word: woundedly
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...March between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain resembled a warm embrace, Friday's hookup of Sarkozy and Barack Obama fell just short of hot love. After trading compliments and endearments during an hour-long press conference in the Elys?e Palace, the pair wound their session down with Sarkozy coming as close as possible to endorsing Obama for the U.S. presidency without actually doing...
...compromised memories, he wells up, and so do we, even as we know we're being sold. The Kodak suits want to focus on their machine's technology. Don argues that its true pull is emotional. "In Greek," Don says, "nostalgia literally means 'the pain from an old wound...
...Ashau Valley, home of Apbia Mountain, or Hamburger Hill, the site in May 1969 of one of the most appalling battles of the war. Dave was there. He was in enough places to be shot twice. When he got home in 1971, they popped him full of Thorazine. He wound up in Veracruz taking a Mexican passport, which he uses to this day. Out of Danang the road snaked north along the coast through emerald country, through two-cow towns with broken coolers brimming with hot soft drinks, mangy dogs sulking in the shade. Some of the most physically beautiful...
...story unfolds chronologically, with multiple, overlapping narrators. This is war as professional soldiers remember it, calmly and often impersonally; moral nuances are left to the civilians. Marine Private First Class Ernest Gonzalez speaks of the icy hell of Chosin: ''Word was passed to kill all enemy wounded. I found one Chinese curled up, lying facedown. He had a head wound shaped like a perfect pie-cut that exposed his brain. I fired into his midriff. He turned slowly and looked at me as if saying, 'Why must you make me suffer more?' Although it remained a common practice on both...
...full of kinetic energy as he delivered a pep talk to the President in a holding room. "This is the most important moment of your life!" he barked at Bush. "You're gonna be great!" Later, Bush told aides that he found McCain's intensity off-putting. "McCain was wound up tight all the time on the campaign trail," says a Bush aide. "That's just not how the President is. He thought it was over...