Word: wound
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surprising lack of turnovers in the first half was more than made up for in the final two periods when the teams combined for five interceptions and three fumbles. Of these eight miscues, the Bruins wound up with the ball seven times...
Kirkland finished the regular season at 2-1, while Lowell wound up a disappointing year with an 0-3 record...
Most of this numbering is useful, and a good deal of it is indispensable. In any event, the world could hardly have wound up otherwise. Human beings began counting and "falling under the spell of numbers," in H.G. Wells' words, well before they could write. Long ago, the entire species was like some modern aboriginal peoples (the Damara and some Hottentots in Africa, for example) who possess words only for numbers up to three, every larger quantity being simply expressed as "many." A fascination with the multiplicity of things, together with a quenchless scientific yen, pushed the main body...
...John strung together another series of completions using the sidelines effectively as the first half wound down and brought Harvard to the enemy 21. But a six-yd. loss on a rollout pass to Beatrice brought in Dave Cody for a 44-yd. field goal try with five seconds left. Cody's kick into the swirling wind fell short as time expired...
...march, which by this time had accumulated representatives of the Screen Actors Guild, Gray Panthers, Hare Krishnas, prolifers, and civilian peacekeepers, wound its way out of the district and proceeded to nearby Bryant Park for a rally. Heartened by music from a women's jazz group and performers from the Broadway shows "I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It On the Road" and "Gemini," the crowd settled down to consider a question posed by poet Robin Morgan: "How come the women's movement woke up to the issue of pornography...