Word: wounding
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...priest under the name Padre Pio-Father Pius. He developed tuberculosis, but continued his priestly duties, though he sometimes fell into ecstatic trances while saying Mass. During one trance, in 1918, Padre Pio collapsed and had to be carried unconscious from the church. Those who examined him found bleeding wounds in his hands and feet and a wound in his side "such as produced by a sharp weapon." Padre Pio had the stigmata-the marks of Christ...
...Imbert-Gourbeyre in his La Stigmatisation, 1894, collected the records of 321). Modern physicians have examined enough of them, e.g., famed Bavarian peasant woman Theresa Neumann, now 51, to recognize the phenomenon as real, though they do not agree on an entirely satisfactory medical explanation. Padre Pio's wounds bleed constantly, the wound in his side saturating three to four handkerchiefs each day. The church, which does not hold that stigmata are necessarily caused by supernatural means, at first treated Padre Pio with cautious skepticism...
...Hoyas wound up with a 9 and 16 record last year, but Shepard thinks they may be considerably improved. The nearest Harvard has come to playing Georgetown was last winter, when the teams held up both ends of a Boston double bill...
...Watt's son, Donald B. Watt, Jr., '47 is also a member of the experiment and last year led a group into Czechoslovakia. The students spent three weeks in a Youth Brigade, made hiking trips into Southern Bohemia, and wound up the trip spending 10 days at Charles University in Prague. This journey will be repeated in 1950 if political conditions permit...
...plays the expected ones too, but only on request or by whim. "Peg O' My Heart" got a scornful but amazingly inventive treatment the night I last heard Sutton, while a private joke with clarinetist peanuts Hucko produced a "Sugar Blues" that laughed at Duchin and Peewee Hunt but wound up with three choruses that were all Sutton, joke or no joke...