Word: woundedly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...than $1 billion under last year's record peacetime appropriation, the Senate-approved spending bill reflects some of the most severe shrinkage since the days before Sanforized shirts. Originally, the Joint Chiefs asked for a dizzying $67 billion; Defense Secretary McNamara sweated off $14 billion and the Administration wound up asking for $49 billion ($4 billion for such items as military assistance, military construction and civil defense is covered in separate bills); and the House whacked $2 billion off that. Only in the freer-spending Senate did the shrinkage stop, and then only by a barely perceptible amount. Final...
...proposing a joint moon venture with the Russians, which prompted many dollar-conscious Congressmen to ask whether there was still any real need to conduct the Apollo moon shot as a cash-eating crash venture (see SCIENCE). And further slashes may be in prospect. The subcommittee, reconsidering its vote, wound up in a 4 to 4 deadlock on a later move to pare the appropriation to a bare-bones $4.2 billion. The measure now goes before the full committee, where Missouri Democrat Clarence Cannon, the chairman, aims to cut out as much...
...Olympics scoring system, so involved that Texas' Albert Fay complained, "You need a dadgum computer to find out where you stand." Olympic Champion O'Day won one race, was disqualified in the next when he failed to hear the recall horn after a false start, wound up a woeful twelfth in the competition. Norway's Crown Prince Harald was so eager that he beat the gun in the last race, thus costing himself a chance for second place overall instead of eighth...
...book, The One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding (TIME, Nov. 9, 1962), Gover locked up a vacuum-packed college sophomore with a pretty Negro prostitute for the weekend, and wound up proving not only that the girl was far nicer than the boy but that Gover is a comic writer of some talent. In his second book, Gover explores what he obviously feels is yet another forbidden daydream of the American male: the rape-murder of a beautiful young woman...
...Able to concentrate again, Nicklaus regained his steady brilliance, was able to open a two-stroke lead by the end of the first nine. Palmer managed to pull even on the twelfth hole, but then on the 13th he punched a two iron smack into a tree and wound up with a double bogey that ended all chances...