Word: woundedly
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...journalist is expected to observe with sympathy, but write what he must. McPhee, admiring Burton immensely but finding himself writing of him at a negative time in the actor's life, wound up feeling about his task as Burton did when he first saw the script of Camelot. "I think it can be done," Burton told his wife. "I think that I can just about tightrope...
...attention was riveted to TIME as I rode a bus climbing into the Judean Hills from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. You could not have chosen a more appropriate time than Passover to discuss the modern Pharaoh who glares across the Red Sea at us. As the bus wound higher into the hills, the elderly lady seated next to me looked at the expression on my face, then eyed Nasser's picture, and, patting my arm, she said, "Never mind, never mind. God will protect us. Fifteen years ago we had nothing here at all. Now see," and she nodded...
...Charlene joined the parade and married Actor Helmut Dantine, who had made a career out of playing the more-or-less nice Nazis of World War II movies. She and Helmut had a son, but they wound up in an angry divorce in 1950. He married her, said Charlene, "only for the money that I expected to receive from my father." So bitter had Charlene become that years later, when she drew up a will, she inserted the explicit provision that Dantine "should not at any time" be given custody of their son, Dana...
Festering Wound. What thrilled the Arab world was the Cairo announcement that Egypt, Syria and Iraq had at last agreed to unite in a tripartite federation. The terms of union were far stronger and more centralized than Arabs, or anyone else, had expected. There had been much talk of a loose association of nations moving slowly over the years toward actual unity. But the pulsing enthusiasm of the moment apparently swept aside much of the earlier restraint...
...collapse in a welter of bickering three years later. During the past five weeks of negotiations in Cairo, rumors spread of wrangling and dissension between Nasser on one side and the Syrian and Iraqi leaders of the Socialist Baath Party on the other. Both picked at the "festering wound" caused by Baath's breakup of the earlier, ill-starred union of Egypt and Syria in the United Arab Republic. Each put the blame for failure on the other...