Word: wrap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Forcing the woman's car to a halt, the general pressed his revolver against her head and demanded an apology. When angry pedestrians let the air out of the tires of his car, Prats beat a hasty retreat in a taxi. Allende used the "provocation" to wrap a "zone of emergency" around Santiago province. Some civil liberties were suspended, and the police were placed under direct military control. But by that time, a few right-wing army officers had made final their plans for the coup...
...Harvard thinclads sloshed their way to a 105-48 victory over Yale in a heavy downpour yesterday to wrap up an undefeated dual meet season and clinch most of the berths on an international track team...
Fifty-two participants delivered papers at workshops and colloquiums organized by Doris Mitchell, assistant dean of students at Radcliffe. At the wrap-up session, the symposium's organizers circulated petitions which urged undergraduates and alumnae to protest the phasing out of Mitchell's office...
...with Kasler.) Often the bandages were not changed for a week and a half. "It was horrible," says Kasler. "All the gore was running out, and flies and mosquitoes flocked to the wound. At one point the stench became so bad that we got a piece of oilcloth to wrap around the leg to hold down the smell." His weight dropped from 167 to 125 Ibs. When he asked to see a doctor for his draining leg, he was refused...
...people who exist somehow in its heat. As she becomes more engrossed in her confession, and her humble gratitude, the sun melts and pours down to her hard kneecaps; rusty and almost frozen, down on the unheated wooden floor. Steam and smoke from its melting drift upward and wrap themselves about her loins and her heart; finally centering and being released in the hot tears that fall from her eyes with each deep intake of breath and sharp gasp of sweetly curdled praying words...