Word: woundings
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Carver sat astride the 22-ton machine, his dust-caked face streaked with the paths of recent tears. He remembers being frightened and tense as he guided the Cat toward an armed U.S. Forest Service agent holding a hand-lettered sign ordering Carver to stop. The agent stumbled and wound up briefly crawling on hands and knees. But Carver kept coming. He pulled out a pocket-size copy of the U.S. Constitution, which he keeps with him always, and waved it defiantly at the agent as a crowd of about 200 people, a quarter of them armed, cheered him forward...
...deutsche marks [$700] not to kill my son or rape my daughter. I had no choice. I had to pay," Ogresevic said. The soldier told her to march along a small track. She saw the bodies of two Muslim women. One lay facedown in a mud hole, a gaping wound in the back of her neck. "We could hear women who were taken into the woods screaming. We knew what was happening to them, but we were afraid to turn our heads to look." When Ogresevic finally reached the front line, the Serb soldier whom she had paid pointed...
...idea of abstinence with some snorting variant on what Hemingway's Jake Barnes told Brett Ashley at the end of The Sun Also Rises: "Isn't it pretty to think so?" (Jake's problem was not sexual indulgence, of course, but the reverse--grim chastity enforced by a war wound.) Get real...
Brown snatched the championship away with seven minutes to go, tying the game on a penalty kick. Even though Harvard wound up losing the title, they haven't stopped believing. But they haven't quite gotten over it, either...
...allowed to stay in power. It is naive, however, to think that if Saddam had fallen, he would necessarily have been replaced by a Jeffersonian in some sort of desert democracy where people read the Federalist papers along with the Koran. Quite possibly, we would have wound up with a Saddam by another name...