Word: bled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more people harder than any in history. At least 21½ million Americans directly own corporate shares; another 100 million indirectly have a stake in the market through their holdings in mutual funds, pension funds, profit-sharing funds and the like. Last week the Dow-Jones industrial average tum bled again, by 30 points to 744, lowest since 1963. So far this year the market has plunged 25%, causing a loss of $120 billion, or an average of $2,000 for every U.S. family. These are euphemistically called paper losses - but in many instances they are very real...
...Beer. Not to be outdone by the foreign competition, Britain's Ivor Davies staged a complex, explosive demonstration that involved a picture of Robert Mitchum and a male anatomical model with a heart that bled and realistic genitalia. Japan's Yoko Ono had a fey Zen variant on the dominant theme: she spread out a cloth on which she drew the outlines of people's shadows, then folded it up to take their shadows prisoner...
...seven columns soon isolated the Nationalists in their cities and drew them out for costly battles that chewed up whole divisions without gaining ground for either side. Bled and battered, the Nationalist-held cities began to fall: by October 1948, Lin's forces held Mukden, Changchun and the Liaotung Peninsula, and had killed or captured 400,000 of Chiang's troops (including 36 generals replete with their arsenals). Then, advancing an average of six miles a day, Lin struck out for Peking, which fell 1"5 weeks later...
...Bull concluded a scientific agreement in Budapest; and a delegation of Polish parliamentarians arrived in Brussels to have a look at the Common Market. Poland's Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki turned up in Stockholm; Hungarian Boss János Kádár talked to Tito in Bled; the Shah of Iran left Rumania for an eight-day state visit to Yugoslavia. No sooner had Rumanian Postal Minister Mihai Balanescu arrived in Paris to inspect French telecommunications than Kentucky Governor Ed Breathitt popped up in Poznan for a Polish tool fair...
...eldest, Don Alfonso, inherited the family hemophilia and bled to death after a 1938 auto accident; the second, Don Jaime, a deaf-mute, renounced the throne, though he later renewed his claim...