Word: bled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trusts the author and the playgoer, for a change, and the play flashes like an unsheathed sword, keen, virile, inescapably compelling. It is a patriot's poem of valor, a memorial ode written in the bright and acrid air of combat for all men who ever fought, bled and died for their country's honor...
...crowded up to the line in suburban Hopkinton. A motlier crew never trotted down a pike. "I'm trying to get back into shape," explained Konrad Ulbrich, onetime captain of the Harvard swimming team. "The guys at the bar bet me I couldn't do it," mum bled a red-eyed fellow in pajama bot toms. There was a doctor from Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, who talked about the "mental and spiritual uplift" of running to the point of physical collapse. And a college English teacher announced: "I'm a runner, so what am I supposed...
...nation, France has seemed to be dying all through the 20th century. It was bled white of its young men in World War I, humiliatingly beaten and overrun by the Nazis in World War II, and spent the postwar years futilely trying to put down a succession of colonial revolts, while at home governments fell and Premiers came and went amid the clamor of scuffling Deputies in the National Assembly. Only fading memories remained of the ancient days when the lily banners of the French kings triumphed from one end of Europe to the other, or when the Revolutionary Tricolor...
...EAST GERMANY. Bled by massive inefficiency, defections of specialists to the West and a rigid regime that compounds its own mistakes, East Germany now depends on West Germany for much of its manufactured goods. Trade between the two last year reached $500 million. Less known is the fact that, although still small in volume, U.S. exports to East Germany have risen dramatically in the last year, largely through U.S. sales of wheat, tobacco, and other farm goods...
...lived to 56, but another died at four; Alice's younger carrier daughter Alexandra married Czar Nicholas II, was murdered with him and their hemophilic son, the Czarevitch Alexis. Beatrice's daughter Victoria Eugenie married Alfonso XIII of Spain, had two affected sons, Alfonso and Gonzalo, who bled to death after accidents...