Word: bled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thing TIME chooses to call "isolationism," defined clearly by Herbert Hoover, is the will of the people. TIME and all others who would see this nation bled white in "little" wars throughout the world will soon realize this...
...affection for the countryside: "It was chalk country. Except where the trees stood in neat clumps upon the hills and where a belt of cornfields crept up among the contours, the turf and tilth were thin upon the rock. Cut this country anywhere in lane or ditch and it bled white...
...army -then slept soundly while the Federals slipped away in the night on an unguarded turnpike, only 100 yards from the Confederate lines. His next move was even more disastrous: he followed the Federals a few miles north, and "without adequate artillery and over the protests of his officers," bled his army in a foolhardy frontal assault. His blind courage led straight to his rout at Nashville 16 days later, and his resignation...
Likeliest purpose of the arrests: another show trial, to provide scapegoats for Rumania's rapidly worsening internal situation. For beautiful Rumania continues to be bled white by its Russian masters and their puppets while most Rumanians (with the exception of fat Mother Pauker and the Communist hierarchy) live in deepening misery...