Word: bled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ozarks, and Preacher Howard's knottiest problem, has been moonshining. One of his book's most poignant chapters concerns his watch by the bedside of a delirious 14-year-old boy dying in agony of fusel-oil poisoning after drinking moonshine. The boy's eyeballs bled and he screamed: "Git my eyes, Pappy; they's rollin' off the bed." When the boy died, Preacher Howard had a hard time dissuading an uncle from going out with his shotgun to find the man who gave the boy the liquor. Said the uncle after Howard prayed...
...armor might strike for Reims. At the turn of the week, the Nazis reported U.S. army in Reims and U.S. Flyers reported the Nazia in full, disorganized flight to the Rhine. Field Marshal Günther von Kluge's Seventh Army had been liquidated. His Fifteenth, already bled by its attmep to rescue the Seventh, was outflanked in its positions on the rocket Coast. The first question was whether the Germans could make a stand short of the Maginot Line. It was doubtful...
...collaborationists were hauled from the refuge of a jail. One was smashed across the face. His nose bled sickeningly. He began to cry. Then both were kicked downstairs, stood up against a wall by a group of resistance men, brandishing rifles and pistols. A group of U.S. photographers were told the pair was to be executed so the photographers could make pictures. TIME & LIFE'S Robert Landry protested that the men should be given a trial, at least. But the Frenchmen shouted: "We have been waiting four years for this-they are traitors...
...have been hit worse than Coventry, admitted frankly that it made him wonder: how could the Germans stand it? Now that air power has probably lost its chance to prove itself the all-powerful weapon, the invasion will show what it has done. Most airmen are sure it has bled Germany white...
...Allied blow forced them to rise up and fight. Still needed: the all-out Allied push, a seeming impossibility now, when reserves are few on the Italian front.* But if what Uncle Joe's pilots reported was true, if the German was being slowly bled to death, things must still be different...