Word: bled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Suffering from an acute sense of insecurity and flickering suspicions, Ann Woodward sometimes created volcanic public scenes with her husband. In El Morocco one night, she scratched Bill Woodward's face until it bled, after he pulled out a handkerchief with a lipstick stain on it. At the Marquis de Cuevas' ball in Biarritz two years ago (TIME. Sept. 14, 1953), Ann, dressed as a red devil, reacted violently when she saw her husband dancing with Carmen Sainte, the beautiful Chilean-born wife of a big French rope-and-hemp man. During the dance, Mme. Sainte wrapped...
...Board the "La Touraine." Even before, many of the students had to take their last final examinations above the ship's engine room. But the heat did not discourage the students, though, as one member of the Club observed: "At the conclusion of each examination, the suffers assem- bled, books in hand, marched twice about the decks, and finally halting at the stern, threw books and notes into the sea with a great shout, much to the edification of the other passengers...
...other female hemophiliacs' families were British, all fitted the classic Mendelian inheritance pattern: a father-bleeder, a non-bleeding mother-carrier. One of the hemophiliac daughters successfully bore a child (TIME, July 16, 1951), but was later forced to undergo surgical removal of the uterus after she nearly bled to death...
After the contest started four months ago, the paper picked up about 70.000 new readers. To win the $25,000 in prizes, contestants have to guess the names of towns in New York state represented by scram bled anagrams (see cut) and described in such clues as: "People of one religious faith from all over the state gather here for an annual meeting. It is a small country village and was first settled about 1790.* As the Trib expected, so many contestants solved the first 54 Tangle Towns that the paper started a series of tough tie-breakers...
...parties, and his chief desire was to be "respectable." When the lights burned late in Mussolini's palace, it was often because he had got his hands on "lists of subscribers to opposition papers" and was busy marking down those who were to be "beaten up until they bled." But, asserts Author Monelli, some of Mussolini's followers were far tougher than he. When his old Socialist enemy, Giacomo Matteotti, was murdered by some of his Fascist pals and Mussolini was blamed for the act, the situation scared the striped pants off him. Sobbing in the arms...