Word: woundedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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June 4: People's Liberation Army troops storm the center of the capital in a pre-dawn raid. protesters are dispersed by machine-gun fire and tanks. Hundreds of students are killed and many more wounded.
In his official report on the upheavals, Chen Xitong, Beijing's hard-line mayor, claimed that 200 civilians were killed and more than 3,000 were wounded. "Several dozen" soldiers died, he said. His figures for civilians are almost universally dismissed as outrageous underestimates. On the day of the crackdown...
"I'm so sick! I'm so sick!" wailed Mona Aguayo as the paramedics entered her tiny bedroom at 1:30 a.m. Observed St. Andrew: "She's 96 years old, maybe senile, hurts all over. But basically she's healthy." Carried out by burly firemen, Aguayo seemed like a wounded...
One day last spring, Dr. Peter Moyer at Boston City was tending to a young man who had been wounded in a shoot-out, presumably over the cocaine the staff found stashed in his underwear. Hovering nearby was the patient's bodyguard, an immense personage who kept his hand on...
But the decisions and solutions will not come easily or soon. AIDS will not | be cured tomorrow, nor will the population cease to age. Drugs will continue to kill, as will people who use them. When the doctors and nurses who devote themselves to saving lives on the edge are...