Word: bleed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plays a six-year-old whose mother has just died. The boy has an original mind ("Brave boys don't bleed very much when they're cut. No matter how big the cut is, they hold their blood in"), and he tries hard to understand what has happened to his mother. But he can't quite do it till he finds one of his goldfish floating belly up in the tank. At the sight he screams insanely and has to be slapped to his senses, but next morning he bounces up for breakfast as though nothing...
Germany's commander in chief, Erich von Falkenhayn, conceived of the Verdun battle as a device to draw in the French and "bleed their army white." He systematically refused to release reserve divisions, which on several occasions would have allowed hapless Crown Prince Wilhelm, who commanded the Verdun army, to win the battle and so bring an end to the carnage. Falkenhayn's plan specified that the French would lose three to five men for every German who fell. He died, after the war, still insisting that this is what happened, though the facts, brought to him from...
Publicity in the Montreal press and a tolerant article in Look won Liefmann a rich market for his concoction on both sides of the border; many Americans traveled to Canada to obtain Liefcort. One U.S. woman suffered such severe internal bleeding after taking Liefcort that she had to have an operation; pneumonia developed as a complication, and she died. Canadian arthritis experts report that men taking Liefcort have developed enlarged breasts, while women have grown beards. In both sexes there is a danger that peptic ulcers will start to bleed...
...doctor snarls at Mountain's manager (Jackie Gleason). "That's sclerotic damage. A couple of good rights to that eye, you can buy him a tin cup and some pencils. Or maybe some day he'll bang his head on a bathroom door and bleed to death. No more...
...Bragar's full-fashioned British yarn can sweaters. They sell for $9 each and come in a full range of shades. Turtleneck jersies, are stocked in basic colors in sizes small, medium, and large, and fast at $4. Mrs. Bragar's collect India madras roll sleeve shirts, anteed to bleed," is particularly active...