Word: bled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bird." The man Zamperini will never forget was Sergeant Watanabe, who made prisoners do "pushups" over latrine troughs until they collapsed with their faces in the excrement, who beat Zamperini on the head until he bled, gave him bits of paper to staunch the wounds and when the blood stopped, said "Oh, it stop, eh?" and beat him again. Watanabe had a head like a frog's. The prisoners called him "The Bird...
...Carter ran back a few yards to get another rifle from the company command post, the enemy started tossing hand grenades. One landed inside the foxhole. Harrell tried to find it and throw it back. It blew off his left hand. His left thigh was broken, too, and he bled from many wounds made by fragments of the grenade...
...Muse of History drew the Tsarevich to her, for he had become restless. "Poor little bleeder," she said, stroking his hair, "different only in the organic nature of your disease from so many others who have bled and died. In answer to your question, Madam," she said, glancing at the Tsarina, "I never permit my foreknowledge to interfere with human folly, if only because I never expect human folly to learn much from history. Besides, I must leave something for my sister, Melpomene, to work...
...greater error. . . . It is not necessary to make any sacrifices. . . . We might as well realize that idealism has spread its wings and taken flight and that so far as mere power politics are concerned, we have more to gain by making peace than by allowing ourselves to be bled white...
During the whole course of Churchill's life, Britain had been engaged in a hidden or open life & death struggle with Germany. In World War I the struggle had bled Britain white. In World War II Britain had had her closest squeak since Napoleon. More than any other single man, Winston Churchill had saved the Empire and in doing so had saved Western civilization. But there had been a price...