Word: wounded
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Reischauer's career did not end at academia. Appointed ambassador of Japan from 1961 to 1966, he "wound up making history as well as writing it," said Professor Emeritus of History John King Fairbank, a leader in Chinese studies...
...days before glasnost, some Soviet arms negotiators typically wound down from a tough day at the bargaining table with a liquor-soaked, showgirl-ogling foray to a Western nightclub. Today's post-glasnost Soviet diplomat, however, displays a greater sensitivity, in no small part prompted by dealings with tough and informed female U.S. negotiators during the long workdays. But with progress come some awkward moments. Last month a top Soviet delegate to the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks in Geneva rose to bid goodbye to an American counterpart, a young blond woman. Struggling for an appropriate send-off, he confided...
...bitter have the battles been between Freedman and the conservative journal that one Peninsula editor suspects the president of doing a frame-up job to wound his adversaries...
...pretend and lost. Which is nobler? All three authors ponder this, but Paul Taylor does it most eloquently: "Faced with a choice between the illusion of Bush and the unvarnished reality of Dukakis, ((the voters)) knew what they wanted. How odd: a process designed to unmask the candidates wound up electing a masked...
...prove to us that if we don't include explanations and education and counseling in a screening program, we will end up doing more harm than good. An awful lot of people were found to be sickle-cell carriers, with no significant risk to their own health, but they wound up believing that eventually they would become ill. Insurers canceled policies. It is terrifying to look back on this experience, and a good reason to go slow on screening for cystic fibrosis...