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...white prisoner was hit in the groin by a ricocheting bullet.) A black man shouted to the guard that he wanted to take one of the wounded to the hospital, but the guard gestured with his rifle, telling him to stay away. The wounded convict, shot in the leg, bled to death on the concrete floor of the exercise yard. In letters that were written long before this "incident," George Jackson tells us that he always stays near the wall in the exercise yard, to have some cover when the firing starts; for when the firing starts at Soledad...
...late Everett Dirksen, told something of where he had been. Styron's face was a gentle mystery. Smooth for its forty-five years, it had of late come to look maybe a touch soft-trough so unblemished you wondered if his secret picture, like Dorian Gray's, bled and festered somewhere in the attic. There was something of the Frat Rat about him: he would come back to reunions...
...once more churning with violence last week. Flames lit the sky over the town, gunshots crackled in the night air. Police and National Guardsmen patrolled the streets, and nervous citizens, fearful of the new outlaws in their midst, could only watch and wonder why "Bleeding Kansas" was being bled once again...
Just as I went to bite it loose, she puckered her lips and I bit her. Her lip bled rather badly. She looked up into my eyes as if I had done it on purpose and said pleadingly, "Don't bite!" If she hadn't said that and looked at me the baleful way she did, I never would have thought I might have done it on purpose. To the best of my knowledge, it was an accident. But I admitted to myself that friction had arisen between us as it had arisen between Yana and the two kids from...
...personal fouls by the aggressive Terriers contributed more than anything else to the ensuing drive, and while Champi's nose bled on the sideline. Dave Smith guided Harvard to within five yards of a second touchdown, one which the Crimson would have been glad to have later...