Word: wound
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kennedy has lost popularity partly because his image as a strong leader has softened as he has mumbled and fumbled on television and on the hustings. He suffered a serious, self-inflicted wound from his outspoken criticism of the Shah of Iran while the Americans remained captive in Tehran. A whopping 74% disapproved of Kennedy's remarks being made at that time. Only 17% approved...
While Venezuelan air force helicopters whirred in the sky above and 5,000 soldiers patrolled on the ground below, armed motorcades wound through the clogged streets of Caracas. It was a typical Panavision entrance for the 13 oil ministers of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. The price-fixing cartel that had tiptoed onto the stage of international power politics a decade earlier was gathering amidst pomp, pageantry and supertight security to do what it had learned to do best: demand more money...
...judges. The prosecuting attorney was so upset that he burned one of his law books. "I don't have a judge," he exclaimed. "I figure if I don't have a judge, I don't need a law book!" Despite Farmer's efforts, his client wound up on death...
Over the next year they sold thousands of messages, diagrams and computer codes to the resident Soviet agents, including a KGB colonel with steel teeth. The Soviets wound up unwittingly bankrolling Daulton's drug operation, and the pair came to grief only after an unannounced delivery to the embassy to raise cash for a big drug deal. The friends turned against each other at their trials, Christopher saying he had been blackmailed into stealing the secrets by his former friend, Daulton insisting that all along he had been told they were working for the U.S., spreading false information. Judge...
...snow again. My God, there must be eight feet out there now, Heather. I don't know what to do." After only a few hours of showing, the Chicago Council on Fine Arts had the exhibit covered up and charged the artist with "character assassination." The matter wound up in court. The result: Art 1, City Hall 0. Sefick, who is now preparing The Bilandics for exhibit, is still mystified by all the excitement. "I just meant it to be funny," he says...