Word: bled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard to reconcile. One ran on the editorial page. It boasted that the city had grown 33% since the 1940 census. Crowed the headline: SEATTLE'S BEST YEARS ARE AHEAD. But on Page One another, sadder editorial said that the Star would not be around to enjoy them. Bled by "terrific increases in every item" of publishing costs, the paper was folding up that...
...Secretary of State George C. Marshall's policy of splendid isolation from the China civil war had led to a deadlock: neither the Government nor the Communists had enough strength for a knockout punch. As the opposing forces clinched wearily last week, China, bled white by the long struggle, took a new breath. The U.S.'s three-star General Albert C. Wedemeyer was on the way to see what could be done to retrieve the losses that followed from five-star General Marshall's indecisive decision...
...profit). But he was stiff-necked in his dealings with employees. The C.I.O. United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers Union, which was heavily sprinkled with Communist leaders, was just as tough as President Deeds. Last year their mutual toughness resulted in a bitter 20½-week strike which bled both sides white. The bitterness lingered...
...have had notable results with two anti-clotting drugs: heparin and dicumarol. Heparin is a substance in the liver and lungs first isolated in 1916; dicumarol is found in spoiled sweet clover (its anti-clotting property was first discovered when it was found that cattle feeding on it sometimes bled to death). Both drugs prevent clots from forming...
Earth to Earth. Victory in two desperate wars had bled Britain white. For years both the wise and the merely smart had been pointing to signs of Britain's decline. The loosening bonds of empire, the "austerity" (that dignified synonym for poverty) ; the defensive tension in foreign policy were old symptoms of what was happening. But it took the coal crisis (see FOREIGN NEWS) to bring home to the world the fact that decline had reached the Empire's heart...