Word: bled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finland has one of World War II's most difficult diplomatic positions to maintain. Internally her fighting strength is being bled white by two wars in three years. Her economy is disrupted by blockade, her people dissatisfied. Letters from1 soldiers complain of German pressure at home, bad food and living conditions. Some are bitter over wives and sweethearts consorting with German soldiers...
...latter a manifest impossibility, since he must pay heavy Treasury taxes on any new lump sums he now earned. Not many tears fell. Millions, had wanted to know whether the young Irish sharpshooter could cut down the great Bomber. Only a few of the more emotional sportswriters bled much in print, and up rose no wave of public indignation. The U.S. as a whole had learned another lesson: you cannot hold on to the peacetime pleasures, even under the name of Army Emergency Relief-which, incidentally, didn't need the money anyway...
...Army, but he had equal reason to fear that the German Juggernaut, as in France, could not be stopped until too many wellsprings of Russian oil, iron and food supplies had been lost, too many waterways and railroads had been cut, too many Russian soldiers had bled to death on the southern steppes. The next few weeks would tell...
...situation in China is of appalling gravity. Military supplies in a country bled white by five years of war are small. China's armies are in no condition to launch even local offensives. China has shown an unbelievable capacity for suffering that stands out in bold relief when it is seen how deeply seven months of defeats have bitten into the core of American and British morale in the Far East. But in the near future China's genius, her capacity for suffering, may not be enough...
...wanted to." He could write lovely letters, too: he liked writing them so well that he sent out 7,750,000 in 17 years. For the venerable, frosty-powed Vicar had made a juicy discovery: the world was wondrously full of charitable persons whose hearts and pocketbooks bled at letters of appeal, and who made no importunate inquiries as to what became of the money. So the methodical Vicar compiled his own card-indexed list containing 20,000 of the choicest, most tenderhearted names in England, found he could have his own motor, furnish the vicarage like a house...