Word: bled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest fact about the Korean war is this: it was never inevitable, it was never inescapable. No fantastic fiat of history decreed that little South Korea-in the summer of 1950-would fatally tempt Communist aggressors as their easiest victim. No demonic destiny decreed that America had to be bled this way in order to keep South Korea free and to keep freedom itself self-respecting...
Time & again the Legion has been bled white, but the world's hopeless and desperate have always poured in to swell its numbers. The recruit applying at Sidi-bel-Abbès needs no identification papers, and may, if he chooses, keep his past to himself. If he is over 5 ft. 1 in., well set up and seemingly aged between 18 and 42, he will be accepted. Czarist refugees from Russia, Spanish Communists fleeing Franco, ex-members of Rommel's Afrika Corps, embezzlers and down-and-outs from all parts of the globe have sought sanctuary...
...pictures in the issue are generally good. Quite a few are very good, and one, of Professor Finley eagerly following some sport, is extremely expressive. Unfortunately, the pictures have not been given the benefit of imaginative makeup. They often block continuity, rather than facilitating it, and are not bled, centered, and arranged in any consistently esthetic pattern...
P.B.H. Co-Chairmen Fred Davis and Jerry Miller, both '53, said that the University of Idaho, with 2,800 signed up to be bled in two drives, is believed to be Harvard's closest competitor...
...prosecution estimated that the city's oil-burner contractors were bled of $500,000 a year. And when Moran learned that the new Impellitteri administration had barred him from further profit, he took it in a businesslike way. "Well," former Fire Captain James Keohane recalled his saying, "we had a good run of it and it's the fortunes...