Word: bled
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...because Larry was and always should be a Celtic. You know the story...those guys like Cousy, Heinson, Cowens and Russell who bled green. They believed in the leprechauns and made them a reality...
Before Anthony Lake decided to bag his CIA nomination, White House aides complained privately that he was being bled to death by the "Ted Sorensen strategy." Sorensen was the ex-Kennedy Administration aide who became Carter's abortive nominee for CIA chief in 1977. Of the Lake debacle, Sorensen (now an international lawyer in New York City) told TIME last week: "Been there, done that": "Looking grim and even more somber than usual, [Sorensen] read a vigorous 10-page rebuttal of what he called 'scurrilous and personal attacks.' When he had finished, he picked up another piece of paper...
Capps, 41, was the kind of guy who, when pricked, bled in rainbow colors. His defection, when it came six months ago, was so startling that the New York Times reported it. Now when he walks the streets of Silicon Valley, people hiss...
...into collecting gold. In Haiti, he ordered that all Indians over age 14 surrender a quota of gold every three months. The quota was unattainable--gold did not exist in the quantities that Columbus imagined. Nevertheless, Indians who did not meet the quota had their hands cut off and bled to death...
...survey of 2,191 men is part of the much larger, ongoing Framingham Study, which since 1948 has poked, prodded and bled two generations of men and women to uncover the roots of heart disease. It could help solve a medical problem that has long frustrated cardiologists: Why do some people with normal cholesterol levels have heart attacks? According to Dr. Andrew Bostom of Tufts University, who led the research team, all the men entered the study with no signs of heart disease. And even today their total cholesterol counts are only slightly elevated, averaging 200 mg/dL. (Women also participated...