Word: bled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most publicized instances, 18-year-old Peter Fechter, an East Berlin bricklayer, was cut down by machine-gun fire as he tried to scale the Wall and, in plain view of Western policemen and reporters, was left lying for an hour while he bled to death; finally East German border guards retrieved his body. Fechter was one of an estimated 75 who have been killed over the past 28 years while trying to escape across the barrier...
...Robertson have declared a truce in the G.O.P. presidential campaign, Republicans in North Carolina's Fourth Congressional District apparently did not get the word. A gathering in sleepy Franklin County to pick three delegates to the national convention wound up as the Battle of Louisburg. Fists flailed, noses bled, bodies flew off the stage...
...AIDS virus -- theoretically at least -- can be transmitted via mosquito bites, French kissing, toilet seats -- and by sliding into second base (if, by chance, an infected player has bled onto...
...that he admitted to espionage only after being informed that they too would be arrested. Christopher Payne, 26, another R.A.F. defendant, claimed that he was denied use of the bathroom for twelve hours at a time and made to shave three or four times a day until his face bled. The Thatcher government has promised an independent inquiry into the interrogations. But there was no escaping the conclusion that after many embarrassments over porousness in the British intelligence services, the government failed to demonstrate that the leaks are being plugged...
Largely as a consequence, SUNY's trustees and the heads of its 64 campuses have lacked the authority to build a first-class university. Even Chancellor Wharton cannot shift a secretarial position or substantially expand a department without permission from the state division of the budget. Tuition money is bled away to pay off old construction debts. And there is not enough new money to lure crack faculty or beef up the graduate curriculum. Under the dead hand of such regulations, continues the report, SUNY is "well behind" other major public universities in research and graduate education...