Word: bled
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...have been hit worse than Coventry, admitted frankly that it made him wonder: how could the Germans stand it? Now that air power has probably lost its chance to prove itself the all-powerful weapon, the invasion will show what it has done. Most airmen are sure it has bled Germany white...
...Allied blow forced them to rise up and fight. Still needed: the all-out Allied push, a seeming impossibility now, when reserves are few on the Italian front.* But if what Uncle Joe's pilots reported was true, if the German was being slowly bled to death, things must still be different...
Eventually Ellis discovered, from the way blood spurted from a tiny puncture, that spiders have high blood pressure. Somehow they seemed to be able to raise or lower the pressure in their legs. When Ellis bled a spider, its leg stretching became much weaker. In a report of his findings in the Biological Bulletin, he noted another curious fact: "Spiders nearly always die with their legs completely and permanently flexed...
Germany. Berlin, still cleaning up, was plastered again by the R.A.F. with 1.500 tons of bombs, bled and burned anew...
...June 13, 1917, Pershing landed in France. The Allies were bled white by three years of viselike war. They were low in morale and committed to holding trenches, but their spirits rose when Pershing and the A.E.F. arrived. The leaders of the British and French were eager to absorb this fresh new blood into their own thin blood streams...