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...said disgustedly after about five minutes in which I had bled only a tenth of a pint. "I better try another vein if that's all right with you." I assured her it was all right. The nurse brought around a brand new jar, stabbed for the bigger vein and this time I bled. Despite her weariness, the nurse gamely kept conversation going while I opened and closed my hand around the round object, and the blood drained out. "Few rejects today," she said. "One, though, almost fainted on the bed before I took his blood. Decided I better...
...statement designed to show a cleavage between Moscow and Peking. Russia., said the statement, had inveigled the Chinese into the Korean war in order "to slash the strength of China . . . because a strong China on Russia's southern frontier is the Kremlin's nightmare . . . China fought and bled while Russia looked on. To Mao Tse-tung this could hardly look like bosom comradeship ... It may mean China eventually goes the way of Yugoslavia . . . The Reds have been so busy looking for cracks in the structure of the democracies they have not noticed the perch they are sitting...
...came, as people have come for a generation, to witness the strange Good Friday manifestations that have taken place for 25 years upon the body of a peasant woman named Therese Neumann. Each Good Friday (and on about 25 other Fridays through the year), chunky, good-natured Therese has bled from her eyes and the wound in her side, or from the stigmata in her hands and feet, or from all these at once. Eight marks have appeared on her head, as if caused by a crown of thorns...
...thing TIME chooses to call "isolationism," defined clearly by Herbert Hoover, is the will of the people. TIME and all others who would see this nation bled white in "little" wars throughout the world will soon realize this...
...affection for the countryside: "It was chalk country. Except where the trees stood in neat clumps upon the hills and where a belt of cornfields crept up among the contours, the turf and tilth were thin upon the rock. Cut this country anywhere in lane or ditch and it bled white...