Half blind, hideously wounded about the face, he is rescued by a man who calls himself Richard Fannin.
Forensic doctors are frequently asked by magistrates when dealing principally with knife wounds, about the depth of the blade which may have penetrated the victim's body.
The debate in Germany has reopened old wounds about the country's past and the question of what Germans can and cannot do and say in light of the Holocaust.
At this early stage, African-American lawmakers are understandably feeling wounded about the inattention by Congress to electoral problems like the ballot abuses in Florida last year and the general disenfranchisement of minority voters.
But as refurbishing proceeds at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, a new dispute has reopened old wounds about the ultimate responsibility for the atomic bomb attack on Aug. 6, 1945, reinforcing doubts about the extent to which Japan has come to terms with its past.
— Michael Agger There's a harrowing story in the Times about an opposition protester in Ukraine called Dmytro Bulatov, who emerged from the freezing forest last Friday after having been held captive for a week, beaten, and crucified (his hands, the reporter writes, "were punctured with wounds about the diameter of knitting needles") by thugs of President Viktor F. Yanukovych's authoritarian regime.
The second-round draw has simply picked at a lot of old wounds about the long chain of events that ended with the FA apparently forgetting that a club is meant to represent its community and ticking off the move that meant Wimbledon – broke, homeless Wimbledon – were shunted 60 miles north.
I ask Harte what it felt like to work with Valerie, no doubt opening up old wounds about the night that changed her life for good.
And then there will be a predictable clamor among the wounded about the WTO being some kind of a "secret court" (forget that we ratified the treaty giving it its authority) and about how the "old" Europeans are unfairly victimizing innocent American orange growers and chopper manufacturers (leaving aside what we did to invite this action).
The deputies found Mr. Diez dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound about 3 30 a.m., the authorities said.
