Word: bled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even their personal effects followed them, as did the walking stick of Joseph of Cupertino-and sometimes, like the great St. Teresa of Avila, they had to be held down by main force. Bodies that should have been moldering in the grave were exhumed fresh and fragrant; sometimes they bled, as did that of St. John of the Cross when they cut off its finger. The Host at Mass once leapt by itself into the mouth of St. Catherine of Siena...
...aligned with the left-of-center National Farmers Union, will be more comfortable as Democrats. But the shift will cause real trouble for some of the league's leading lights who were elected to the office when the N.P.L. controlled North Dakota's G.O.P. organization. Most trou bled : North Dakota's cantankerous, caterwauling U.S. Senator William Langer, 69, a longtime (40 years) member of the N.P.L., who was elected as a Republican but often votes like a Democrat. If Bill Langer remains a Republican, he will lose strong support in the N.P.L., a loss that could...
Within a day 27 of the wolf's 29 victims were trucked into Teheran (the two others straggled in days later). They were promptly bled, so that any antibodies against rabies could be detected, and divided into five groups. Of the 18 bitten on the head, five got two shots of serum, four days apart, plus vaccine, six got one shot of serum plus vaccine, and five got vaccine alone. Of those bitten less severely elsewhere on the body, four got serum (one shot) plus vaccine, and six got vaccine only...
...Using head, elbows and glove laces with wicked efficiency, Featherweight Champion Joe ("Sandy") Saddler spent twelve rounds at San Francisco's Cow Palace cutting up Filipino Challenger Gabriel ("Flash") Elorde. Finally Flash bled so badly that the referee stopped the fight in the 13th, let Sandy keep his title...
...back-room dentist took out six teeth, but ran into trouble on a seventh. "My gums bled and swelled up so much he couldn't grind any more," she recalls. Despite her pain, the dentist extracted full payment from her before she left. Agnes Jones had to go back again and again to have her gums treated. When she finally got her plates, they fitted so badly that her mouth swelled unbearably. Not until another dentist had her mouth X-rayed was it found that the back-room dentist had broken a tooth and ground it below...