Word: bled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Like 100,000 other Americans each year, Desiree Wade was sent home a few hours after the surgery, which was performed at St. Luke's hospital in Manhattan. She developed a fever and became increasingly sick. Her coughs apparently tore open the surgical wounds in her throat, and she bled to death. There is no evidence that the surgeon did anything wrong, but state health officials are investigating whether the child received the proper follow-up care...
...Flight capital has turned into vampire capital that has bled our economy...
...sold out,'' said restaurant cook Guillermo Dehesa. So did the 74% of Mexico City residents who recently told a newspaper poll that they opposed accepting American aid. Nor did many Mexicans seem to want foreign investors back. ``Flight capital has turned into vampire capital that has severely bled our economy,'' said a statement from Mexico's manufacturing chamber of commerce. ``We must banish it and never depend on it again.'' Whatever impact the bailout finally has on Mexico, the era of fevered investment in emerging markets has cooled...
...stately-looking quarterback ambled into the press conference after the Crimson's 42-23 loss to Bucknell looking like a walking mummy; if you had poked him with a needle, he probably would have bled blue gook...
...illegal slave ships out of New York harbor, with the connivance of Boss Tweed's ring, and had also profitably supplied Union troops during the Civil War with substandard goods -- "boots that fell apart, blankets that dissolved in rain, tents that tore at the grommets, and uniform cloth that bled...