Word: bled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with two East German girls in the car (the Reds sentenced him to twelve years at hard labor). The driver, Horst's brother Heinz, 27, sprinted for the boundary 15 feet away. Just as he got there, a machine-gun slug caught him in the jugular vein. He bled to death three feet inside West Berlin-the 65th person known to have been slain at the Wall...
NEVER CALL RETREAT, by Bruce Catton. Deservedly the bestselling of Civil War historians, Catton shows the South overwhelmed and analyzes two great leaders: Lincoln, who resisted vindictive penalties on the South, and Lee, who refused to start a guerrilla war in the Virginia hills, which would have bled the country...
NEVER CALL RETREAT, by Bruce Catton. Deservedly the bestselling of Civil War historians, Catton shows the South overwhelmed and analyzes two great leaders: Lincoln, who resisted vindictive penalties on the South, and Lee, who refused to start a guerrilla war in the Virginia hills, which would have bled the country...
...among constituents back home, and Congressmen have been even more enthusiastic about the Administration's companion bill, which authorizes new subsidies for colleges and universities. By the time it reached the House floor last week, Adam Clayton Powell's Education and Labor Committee had more than dou bled the Administration's original request for $260 million to finance the bill during its first year...
...Bleeding Ulcer. The Macedonian campaign, which started as a seemingly minor ulcer, ultimately bled Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany to death. But, speculates Author Palmer, "if the breakthrough was possible in 1918, would not a determined offensive earlier in the war have had the same result?" And if it had, how many fewer Allied and German soldiers would lie buried beneath the red poppies of Flanders' fields...