Word: bled
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...challenge Burrough faces in writing about people like Nelson and Kelly is that they've gone thin and stiff with age. "After decades spent in the washing machine of popular culture," Burrough writes, "their stories have been bled of all reality." Burrough strips the comic-book glamour off those cardboard villains and gives them back their grit and power to shock. We learn that Nelson was a tiny blond sociopath whose viciousness frightened even his pals. "Pretty Boy" Floyd--Charley to his friends--was a Dust Bowl farm boy. Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow come off as greedy, murderous children...
...calling her brother to ask for money. After some soul searching, my husband has sent many thousands--for [his sister's] mortgage payments, [his mother's] private nursing services and general household expenses. Is there a way he can provide what's absolutely necessary for his mother without being bled dry? And how do I handle my resentment...
What occupied Reagan in the postwar years was Hollywood union politics. "I was a near hopeless hemophilic liberal," Reagan said later. "I bled for causes. I had voted Democratic, following my father, in every election. I had followed F.D.R. blindly ... " By 1947 he was president of the Screen Actors Guild and found himself embroiled in the union wars ravaging Hollywood. Reagan came to believe that the bitter strikes in 1945 and 1946 by stagehands of the Conference of Studio Unions represented a communist attempt to take over Hollywood, and that belief changed his political views forever. In the subsequent...
Today’s Harvard-Maine matchup in the first round of the NCAA Tournament will be a little different for Reilly—not just because of his good friendship with Standbrook or the heightened importance of a tournament game, but because for three years Reilly bled blue and white as an assistant coach for the Black Bears...
...nerves never showed, as the Crimson bled the 35-second clock dry for the third time during that long possession. This time, however, the Crimson could not find on open look as the shot clock approached zero. The ball came to Rogus, who attempted a jumper in heavy traffic that never found its way to the rim—a shot clock violation and a Harvard turnover...