Word: bled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which has worked hard for the peaceful transition of power, resumed diplomatic relations and prepared to uncork an outpouring of economic aid. To pump new life into the Dominican economy, which was bled white by the treasury-looting Trujillo clan...
...weight with untold thousands of investors-and particularly with the amateurs who have thronged into the market since World War II. So avidly do they seek S. & P. counsel that in the last dec ade annual sales of the company's services and newsletters have more than dou bled, hitting better than $13 million. Profits, jumping even more sensationally, have gone up 68% to $1,298,000 in the last four years...
Insistent Drum. Frenchmen can read more than history in Holy Week. They can read of a France beset far more sorely than she is today-bled white and depopulated by Napoleon's wars, split by divided loyalties and false dreams-and find consolation for today's troubles in the knowledge that within two generations, France was to rise again to lead the Continent. In one of the disconcerting asides to the reader with which he interrupts his narrative, Aragon writes: "Perhaps this book falsely, only apparently, turned toward the past, is only a great quest of the future...
...fascinated all historians-of reason beside unreason, of rationalism beside blind faith-was never more sharply apparent than in the century (1558-1648) from Elizabeth to Richelieu and from Shakespeare to Descartes. It was a time when superstition was rampant; a king's touch would cure scrofula, corpses bled in the presence of the murderer, comets signified disaster-although Galileo was calmly regarding the heavens through a telescope that magnified 1,000 times. Witchcraft (in which Kepler believed) was widespread: the Archbishop of Trier found it necessary to burn 120 of his fellow Germans on the ground that they...
...issue was one that France had been half avoiding for years, and it involved nothing less than the end of empire. The soldiers who forced the battle had bled and lost in Indo-China. had evacuated Tunisia and Morocco, blaming it all on the "politicians." They had toppled the Fourth Republic in May 1958 to install De Gaulle-who was now telling them only three years later that they had to give up Algeria, the last and bloodiest possession of all. But the soldiers, in their bitter years abroad, had lost all touch with the new sentiments of Metropolitan France...