Word: bled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the Depression, management bled labor white until labor had no other choice than to organize against the arrogant bosses. Gradually during the 1950s, many union leaders are becoming just as arrogant as their bosses used...
...Development, took his job last June. None of the VIPs had suffered any ill effects; neither did human volunteers who ate the foods for short periods. But experimental animals put on a long-term diet of irradiated foods had shown some alarming symptoms. Rats developed abnormal eyes, or bled, or died before their time. Bitches bore smaller-than-normal litters. Mice developed enlarged left auricles in their hearts, which interfered with their breathing and sometimes burst...
...straying as through an infinite nothing? Has it not become colder? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Is not night and more night coming on all the while?...God is dead. What was holiest and most powerful of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives. Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must not we ourselves become gods simply to seem worthy of it? There has never been a greater deed; and whoever will be born after us--for the sake of this deed he will...
...Whither is God,' he cried. 'I shall tell you. We have killed him--you and I. All of us are his murderers But how have we done this? God is dead. What was holiest and most powerful of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives. Is not the greatest of this deed too great for us? There has never been a greater deed; and whoever will be born after us--for the sake of this deed he will be part of a higher history than all history hither to.'" But Nietzsche's madman...
Supposing that we hadn't been "stripped of ... empire, economically and physically sapped . . ." by wars - in which, may I remind you, you first bled us white with "cash-and-carry" and then joined in largely to protect your investment in our future -are we to understand that you would expect us to be as anxious as the Gadarene swine to plunge to perdition...