Word: bled
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...bike trip. Survivors claim the gunmen fired M-16s and grenades from rocket launchers, then stepped over fallen bodies and executed the wounded. The two Europeans, who have yet to be identified, tried desperately to flee on their mountain bikes. One was shot repeatedly in the back. His partner bled to death after a bullet apparently ruptured an artery...
...Jewish seminary until rioters from surrounding Nablus neighborhoods overran it early in the intifadeh. "This is a piece of history," whispers Tibon. "The riot here was a turning point in the intifadeh" because the Israeli army hesitated to rescue one of its soldiers as he bled to death and then had to retreat in the face of a Palestinian onslaught. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has reached another standoff. The violence in the West Bank is giving way to Israeli consolidation, but a deadly fury remains below the surface, lurking in the shadows of the empty streets of Nablus...
...paintings are in black or white on plain canvas, whose natural cream surface is disturbed by flecks of dirt in the weave, stains, splashes or seepage from the oil paint. "Subtlety was so important," says Temkin. "Little drips, 'tears' of paint, scratches," and areas where the color has bled under the masking tape. Against a void, these details carry an emotional charge - it's not hard to find meaning in tears, scratches and bleeding. When these works were shown at the Guggenheim in 1966, some questioned the theme's suitability for a modern Jewish artist. Newman pointed to the subtitle...
...center of debate is the question of whether progressive forces can embrace the market without compromising their social priorities?or losing their political souls. The inability to resolve that conundrum has bled France's once-mighty Communist Party to near extinction. Disgruntled working-class voters have increasingly sought ideological solace in Trotskyist movements?or defected to the thuggish populism of Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front. Other members of the leftist coalition have experienced a similar flight. The Green Party, for instance, found that the pragmatism required to be in government alienated many of its members, who had expected...
...rubbed her with cooking fat. Then chanting mantras to the "mother" goddess Kali, he sawed off Manju's hands, breasts and left foot, placing the body parts in front of a photograph of a blood-soaked Kali idol. Police say the arcs of blood on the walls suggest Manju bled to death in minutes...