Word: wound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maury Maverick a Communist, a C. I. 0.-lover, an irresponsible rabble rouser. A third candidate, 29-year-old Leroy Jeffers, entered the race shouting that beneath Maury Maverick's white shirt was a Red undershirt. That let Maury go into his War dance about his Argonne shell wound, crying, "That undershirt was red [with Maverick blood] so that little boys like Leroy Jeffers could be protected...
Heartened by a favorable pre-game prognostication, the CRIMSON nine yesterday wound up a lengthy training session with plenty of spirits. Confidence was rampant in the palatial Plympton Street fieldhouse. "I know we can!" shrieked the team in unison...
...Whalen had no difficulty selling $17,500,000 worth of concessions. But wooing exhibitors was harder work. Nonetheless, he managed to land $30,000,000 worth of entries. When the automobile tycoons hung back, he played General Motors, Ford and Chrysler off against each other so skilfully that he wound up with lavish exhibits from all three. While Heinz held out for a pickle-shaped building, Grover Whalen signed up so many other food exhibitors that Heinz was finally glad to accept half of another, more prosaic building...
...cure but a poultice. To that end they had the delegates elect conservative, cooperative Roland Jay Thomas to the presidency and abolish the jobs of four quarrelsome vice presidents (TIME, April 10). Last week, to the dismay of Physicians Murray & Hillman, the delegates in winding up their convention wound the poultice into a knot...
...Simmons wound up proceedings with a plea for "wide organized efforts" against "these very organized forces of evil which are extinguishing the lamps of learning in the world today...