Word: bled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eventually Ellis discovered, from the way blood spurted from a tiny puncture, that spiders have high blood pressure. Somehow they seemed to be able to raise or lower the pressure in their legs. When Ellis bled a spider, its leg stretching became much weaker. In a report of his findings in the Biological Bulletin, he noted another curious fact: "Spiders nearly always die with their legs completely and permanently flexed...
Germany. Berlin, still cleaning up, was plastered again by the R.A.F. with 1.500 tons of bombs, bled and burned anew...
...June 13, 1917, Pershing landed in France. The Allies were bled white by three years of viselike war. They were low in morale and committed to holding trenches, but their spirits rose when Pershing and the A.E.F. arrived. The leaders of the British and French were eager to absorb this fresh new blood into their own thin blood streams...
They have cleared the Caucasus, reoccupied almost half of the Ukraine, imperiled the Crimea, reached the borders of White Russia. They have bled the Wehrmacht, destroyed the bulk of its Panzer...
...Colonel General Vassily Sokolovsky, the captor of Yelnya. A husky, keen-faced, long-nosed man, he is one of the Red Army's ablest tacticians. His myaso-roobka (meat-grinder) concept has dominated Soviet military thought since 1941, has bled Germany white of her young manhood. Sokolovsky's antidote for Blitzkrieg is slow, continuous grinding, a Verdun multiplied a hundredfold. The advance on Smolensk delights him; only two years ago he had trod this very road in retreat...