Word: woundedly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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DIED. Romain Gary, 66, Lithuanian-born hero of the Free French, diplomat and novelist (The Roots of Heaven, Lady L), whose former wife, Actress Jean Seberg, committed suicide last year; of a self-inflicted gunshot wound; in Paris. Gary met Seberg, his second wife, while serving as France's consul general in Los Angeles in the late 1950s. They were divorced in 1970. Last year he charged that the FBI had brought on her miscarriage and eventual suicide by leaking a story that falsely claimed she was pregnant by a member of the Black Panther Party. In a final...
...with incredible force. These movements can have enormous consequences. Opposing plates often lock, so that great stresses begin to build up. When the pressures become so large that they exceed even the strength of the rock, the earth fractures, frequently along "faults" where earlier breaks have occurred. Like a wound spring suddenly uncoiling, the earth releases its stored energy in shocks that may be felt far beyond the fracture. This is an earthquake...
...concedes that none of the Ivy teams have much chance of toppling the powerhouse Princeton team, which wound up thirteenth in the nation last year, but beyond them, the Crimson could come up with some impressive wins...
With inflation hovering at 18% in January, February and March, as measured by the Consumer Price Index, the Federal Reserve began pressing down hard on the money supply, interest rates rose and business activity plunged. In April the dimensions of the slump, which wound up cutting overall economic output by 9.6% at an annual rate in the second quarter, alarmed even the Federal Reserve, which reversed itself and began feeding money and credit back into the economy. In the process, the cost of loan money dropped, the slide into recession halted, and by late summer business was showing tentative signs...
...gusty hooker suited up and played superably in Harvard's opening round win over Norwich that Saturday morning. After a quick trip to the hospital to clean and redress his wound, Oberg returned for the semifinal overtime win against a physical Brown squad in the afternoon. That evening the doctors told the scrappy redhead not to play in Sunday's consolation final, but Oberg lived up to the revolutionary's motto, "never say die," and finished the season along side his teammates...