Word: wounds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Besides Framelo's goal, Griggs had very little to drool over on offense. The Elis were outshot, 17-13, and most of their balls wound up in Hartford. Harvard goalie Jamie Reilly came up with three saves, including a beautiful stop on Peter Marshall's one-on-one blast early in the second half...
...doing genealogy" are typical little white lies. Many justify their actions with the claim that they are victims of adoption, robbed of their heritage or shamed into giving up an illegitimate child. Their anger and desperation have led some psychologists to conclude that adoption leaves a permanent wound. "Birth parents and adoptees are amputees in our society," says Los Angeles psychologist Annette Baran, who specializes in adoption- related counseling. Says she: "I think reunions are excellent, even when the outcome...
Though many adopted children went on to live contented, successful lives, others suffered from the start and were slow to heal, a phenomenon largely ignored by the mental-health community. The visceral sense of loss, psychologists suggest, even in the case of infant adoptions, is an abiding , wound, too little understood. Adoptees represent 2% of the U.S. population, yet by some estimates they account for one-quarter of the patients in U.S. psychological treatment facilities. "There are many issues that are particularly critical for adoptive families -- issues of compatibility, intellectual mismatches, personality conflicts," says Ruth McRoy, a University of Texas...
...refused to distribute to his 1,400 U.S. offices because it was "poor in quality, provincial and British in nature with little articles about the soccer team in South Wales." Friction grew to the point that Blue Arrow tried to fire Fromstein, but in a battle for control he wound up in charge of the combined company. Local animosity toward Blue Arrow was so pervasive that Milwaukee's major league baseball team, the Brewers, flashed the news of Fromstein's victory on the scoreboard during a home game...
...could have happened to anybody, anytime, but for Tadeusz Mazowiecki the moment was rich with irony. The tall Solidarity official had just wound up meetings with President Jaruzelski and Jozef Cardinal Glemp last week when his car sputtered to a halt. When questioned by reporters about the difficulties he would face as Poland's new Prime Minister, Mazowiecki answered, "My biggest problem is that...