Word: wounds
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Dole concedes that he often used humor to wound rather than amuse. "I'm very competitive," he says. "And it's easy to move from competitive to combative." Dole's most acerbic period came after Gerald Ford chose him as running mate in 1976. "They needed somebody to go out in the brier patch," Dole recalls. The Kansan tore into the Democrats with a barbed zeal that turned off many wavering voters. In his televised debate with Democratic Vice-Presidential Candidate Walter Mondale, Dole's jokes did not fit the serious forum and his partisanship went...
Senior track sensation Darlene Beckford, coming off a personal best in the U.S. West Germany dual meet in Durham, N.C., wound up second to veteran Francie Larrieu Smith in the 1500-meter run with a 4:13.17 clocking...
...most careful of HMO budget projections can quite unexpectedly boomerang. Last year, for example, the total operating budget for the Boston-based Harvard Community Health Plan was $65 million. But an unanticipated midyear spurt in hospital admissions, combined with higher than expected rate increases for services by the hospitals, wound up producing a cost overrun of $4.9 million for the plan. The Harvard HMO was forced to boost its premium 18% over last year's level. About a half-dozen other HMOs around the country are experiencing similar difficulties. On balance, however, periodic jumps in HMO premiums seem...
...adolescent case of gonorrhea, and in Please Don't Shoot My Dog, Jackie Cooper claims to have been the teen-age lover of Joan Crawford. Some of this brings back memories of Hedy Lamarr's 1966 autobiography, Ecstasy and Me: My Life As a Woman, which wound up telling so much that the "author" denounced it as "obscene, shocking, scandalous, naughty, wanton, fleshy, sensual, lecherous, lustful and scarlet...
During the incessant pulling on and off of the "covers" (tarpaulins), British journalists and other kinds adjourned to a convenient bar. Invariably, the conversation wound its way to tradition. "Americans seem even fonder of tradition than we are," said Laurie Pignon of the Daily Mail, "one supposes because they have so bloody little of it. But they have the best winners in tennis, and we have the best losers in the world, and tradition will always keep Wimbledon special, if not what it was." For Pignon, a picturesquely mustachioed man with a pipe and a paisley shirt, this...