Word: bled
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...Lincoln enlists in a militia during the Black Hawk War but sees no fighting. He would later joke about his time in combat: "I fought, bled, and came away ... I had a good many bloody struggles with the musquetoes...
After Leibrandt was bled to death with two out in the ninth, some were saying Howser froze at the controls, though more likely he was silently adjusting to a declining confidence in Reliever Dan Quisenberry. Despite 37 saves this year, Quiz no longer seems made for such moments, and afterward he did not claim the last out as his rightful province. "The higher we think of ourselves," said Quisenberry quietly, "the more chances we have of being disappointed in ourselves." Kansas City could have taken this for an epitaph, but as Toronto learned in the American League play-offs, which...
...been airlifted here; of those, about 5,000 are classified as combat injuries, though the 141-bed facility also treats the psychological wounds of war, such as depression and post-traumatic stress syndrome. In any other war, the most grievously wounded men at Landstuhl would have been killed, having bled to death on the battlefield or succumbed in a hospital to wounds so severe that their armor could not protect them and doctors could not save them. In World War II, 1 in 3 wounded soldiers died; in Vietnam, 1 in 4. In the Iraq war, the rate...
Their nervous electric vibration in the last guitar chords of “Public Pervert” were strung out in a long sonorous cacophony that bled into blinding white lights and the hard drum pulse of “Not Even Jail,” both songs blasting out of the new album...
...have to stand a ways back, but from a certain angle these look like the lucky ones. In any other war, they would be dead, having bled to death on the battlefield or died in a hospital from wounds so grievous that their armor could not protect them and the doctors could not save them. In World War II, 1 in 3 wounded soldiers died; in Vietnam, 1 in 4. In the Iraq war, the rate is 1 in 8. As of last week, just over 1,500 U.S. military personnel had died in Iraq and 11,285 had been...