Word: wound
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...went to Spain to cover the civil war as a Leftist newspaperman. He had the face of a public-school don, but his heart was made of soldiering stuff. In spare time he boned up on automatic weapons, began instructing International brigadiers how to use them, wound up as commander of the British battalion. He was cool as a glass of iced manzanilla. At Jarama he led the puny British left wing's machine-gun crew through pitch night to a hill looking down on whole tribes of Moors. At dawn his guns nearly wiped out the boxed...
...demarcation line that runs like a jagged wound across the face of France may look like a juridical fiction, but no frontier in the world is tougher to cross. To refugees, reporters and mail it opens and closes with an exasperating unpredict ability: it is harder to get a letter from Vichy to Paris than from Vichy to Timbuktu. Last week the U. S. saw its first copy of a partial solution: a standardized postcard with blanks to be filled in. Even with blanks it suggested the sufferings of Frenchmen today: " 194 .... in good health tired, .... slightly, gravely, ill, wounded...
...commercial radio-transcription studio. A medium soon got through to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. While sympathetic listeners urged him on by exclaiming "Isn't he a dear, the sweet thing," Sir Arthur announced through an earthly middleman that he was happy to send a message to "peaceful America," wound up: "Not so very long ago that great and noble worker Sir Oliver Lodge joined us on this side. Perhaps under similar conditions he too will be able to deliver a message to those on the earth plane." Last week, pointing out that Sir Arthur's voice was identical...
...soon as swelling disappears, a soft plaster cast is wound directly over both leg and pins. Several days later, depending on the type of fracture, the patient is fitted with a "walking iron"-a narrow, U-shaped strip of iron about one and a half feet long. The base slips under the instep like a stirrup, the two long arms are bound with more plaster up either side...
...enough to cover expenses, leave $1,306,000 in the bank. Reorganized because of heavy losses in the first year, the Exposition has three types of creditors (excluding direct lenders, who got back their full stake). Together they sank $5,695,000 in the extravaganza; wound up with $2,516,000, 44% of their investment...