Word: bleedingly
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...throat fills with thorns and she wants to scream. The thorns prick into her life and bleed fire. Why should he comfort her in his lame-ass way? She doesn't even know his name. She mustn't awaken him again, oh no; but it would be better to move, to vanish, than scream, for she has no idea where the scream would take her. So with infinite slowness she begins to wriggle from his embrace. He is unaware...
...that each ruler added some bit to the Prussian land. The last of the Hohenzollerns will live to see that long and cruelly-wrested land snatched from him again. Will he remember Dixmonde when he hears the troops of the five great powers crossing the Rhine? Will his heart bleed for Louvain afresh when the allies of democracy march through the plains of Prussia...
...Opposition parties, in fact, will probably win only about 50 of the Assembly's 300 seats. But in his reign so far as Prime Minister by acclamation, Mujib has had much less success in moving his country toward internal peace and prosperity. Born in bloodshed, Bangladesh continues to bleed, both literally and metaphorically. Political murders among warring nationalist factions number in the hundreds, and the new nation, with a population of 75 million-it is the eighth largest in the world-suffers from severe problems in food, housing, transportation and industry...
...from the poor and bleed me blind...
...opposition to Quebec separatism, and as his slogan "the land is strong," which is practically meaningless. He could not, it seemed, communicate any sense of concern over Canada's appallingly high unemployment rate of 7.1 %. As a Cabinet colleague cynically put it, Trudeau was simply unable to "bleed a little" for the electorate. At the same time, the Prime Minister scraped the bottom of pork-barrel politics, promising such "goodies," or so he called them, as a wharf for Yarmouth, N.S., new port facilities for Halifax and a federal park for Toronto. The effect on the voters was evident...