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Word: woundedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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But before he could meet with Quainoo, Doe and his bodyguards became engaged in a battle with the forces of Prince Johnson, who had declared a truce with Doe less than a month earlier. During the hour-long battle, Doe was wounded in both legs by machine-gun fire and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Liberia Death of a President | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

Like Red Harvest, but unlike most movies, Miller's Crossing has a good novel's narrative density. The film finds a dozen angles in the battle between Leo O'Bannion (Albert Finney), the Irishman who has run the town for years, and Johnny Caspar (Jon Polito), the volatile, flirtatious Italian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Married to The Mob | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

With each passing day, the grim tally mounted. In Brooklyn an 11-year-old girl was wounded in her family's home by a stray bullet from the street outside. Two days later an 18-year-old Bronx man was stabbed to death by a panhandler who had demanded a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: May The Force Be with You | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

Awful superlatives issue forth like cannon fire from PBS's documentary series The Civil War. More than 620,000 Americans died during the conflict, more than in World Wars I and II and Vietnam combined. At the Battle of Antietam alone, 23,000 were killed or wounded, the bloodiest single...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: The Terrible Remedy THE CIVIL WAR | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

The victims have been of all races, all classes, all ages. This summer, in one eight-day period, four children were killed by stray gunshots as they played on the sidewalks, toddled in their grandmother's kitchens or slept soundly in their own beds. Six others have been wounded since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Decline Of New York | 9/17/1990 | See Source »

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