Word: wound
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seesaw second set wound its way to 4-4 at the end of a tie-breaker before Walker netted a backhand slice to tie the match at one set apiece. Walker next dropped to 1-4 in the final set, helping Diaz by serving several double-faults. Then Walker got serious...
...while Reardon squirmed, President Bok groaned and Frank McLaughlin experienced internal ecstasy, McGuire, in his own style, hit home at Harvard's dilemma. He opened a tender wound, telling everyone who was busy spooning his chocolate mousse that not even Harvard can pretend to improve its athletics without facing up to the difficulties...
...activity on campus in the U.S.--the recruitment of Americans, recruitment of foreign students (both carried out with the cooperation of various academics) and the use of scholars to analyze, collect or even publish information for the agency. A fourth activity, covert support of "moderate" students' groups, gradually wound down after revelations in 1967 showed covert funding for the National Student Association...
...coal companies are faring well in spite of the industry's travail. In the West, strip-mine operations have benefited from low labor costs and long-term contracts at profitable rates. But other companies have wound up merely digging up the coal and dumping it on the ground. Utility companies have stockpiled so much that many now have no more room to store the fuel. Meanwhile, the surplus is forcing down contract prices for single shipments, which have tumbled from about $31 a ton a year ago to as little...
Murphy overcame Byrne and held him off with a 1:51.2 split to finish fourth in the event, while Texas-El Paso was later disqualifed for tripping and Harvard wound up with a bronze medal...