Word: bled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fellow countrymen watched with calmness the butchering of Armenians, for decades -while Turkey was a British ally. They bore patiently through the years the sufferings of the Hindu, while England bled white that rich nation. They exhibited stoic calm while the Irish were starved, killed, ground down. The same calm was exhibited in the case of the Boers, and while the Russian ally of Britain was knocking off some million Christians. But now, NOW, the villain is an enemy -and a much and rightly feared one-of England, and hark to the uproar...
...Bankers, lawyers, auditors, appraisers and incompetent high-salaried executives, have bled McKesson & Robbins white...
...Express, with 450,000 readers, countered with ?2,000. In a few months both were offering ?10,000. The war cost the Express $600,000 a year and the Mail, with its larger circulation, nearly twice as much.* Ten years later another premium war swept Fleet Street and bled $5,000,000 from the Express and its three big rivals- the Daily Mail (1,530,000), Daily Herald (2,000,000) and News Chronicle (1,330,000). The Laborite Daily Herald started it by offering a complete set of Dickens for a few shillings. Beaverbrook was in Berlin. He hurried...
...rest of the world--for this affair is inherently international--it is obvious that no embassy attache's life is worth the staggering sum demanded. It is equally indisputable that the Jewish Germans, already bled by the Hitler regime, are in no position to pay the forfeit required, Thus, a world whose patience Hitler has frayed twice in the past year should express in terms as strong as those used in the Austrian and Czech crises its disapproval of such barbarianism. To the pleas of France and England, Hitler has already shown himself impervious. But a scowling rebuke from...
Only recently the Count of Covadonga, former heir apparent to the Spanish throne and a renowned hemophilic, bled to death after an automobile accident. It is entirely probable that the new powder would have helped to stop this bleeding and thus possibly saved his life...