Word: bled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jailed by the Nazis for protesting against the roundup of Hungary's Jews. After the war. he fought the Communist takeover of his country, and in 1949 was tried and sentenced to life imprisonment on trumped-up charges of treason, espionage and black marketing. The Western world bled for the gaunt, tortured prelate, mechanically confessing his guilt for nonexistent crimes before an unfeeling judge. Briefly freed by the 1956 Hungarian uprising, Mindszenty fled to the U.S. legation in Budapest, and there he has stayed, a stubborn symbol of Christianity's incompatibility with Communism...
...protection and defense of the liege King" and they were commonly known as the King's Persons, Jews were nevertheless outcasts in a Christian society that viewed them as heretics. They were prohibited from owning land or holding titles, and lived by the illegal profession of moneylending. Bled by royal taxes, the barons and priests were forced to mortgage their lands to the moneylenders for gold and silver...
...hard to imagine two plays in such contradiction. Lefty attributes to Communists a humane approach: "the man who got me food in '32 called me comrade. The one who picked me up where I bled--he called me comrade, too." On the other hand, Brecht's play warns that Communists who indulge in isolated acts of human kindness are actually working against the process by which the hated system must fall, and therefore must not submit to the temptation of short-range goodness...
Anti-Neocolonialism. There are plenty of errors to avoid. Ben Bella is finally tackling the problem of land reform, which he himself has often vowed is Algeria's most urgent goal. On a three-day tour of the barren, war-ravaged bled, he pledged redistribution of 3,750,000 acres of farm land that has been abandoned by departing Europeans. But the government so far has developed no agricultural policy or even devised a program for compensating European landowners. Around Setif, the peasants have simply appropriated many deserted farms; in other areas, local committees have taken them over. Rather...
...sample. The normal range is 40% to 50%. Most of their heart-disease patients had readings of up to 56%. Patient after patient obtained relief from repeated angina attacks, which cause fierce pain in the chest and left arm, along with an alarming feeling of suffocation. After the doctors bled them, removing about one-third of a pint of blood, the hematocrit level dropped into the normal range...