Word: bleedingly
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...Russians would like to bleed us white by a series of such moves by satellites, for which they will deny responsibility," Douglas declared. "If we and the rest of the world allow ourselves to be sucked in by this, it will be fatal. Instead of fighting off only the tentacles of the octopus, let us recognize that these tentacles are directed by a central intelligence...
...fresh wounds. It was apparent that she was beginning to feel pain . . . She appeared to lapse into a trance . . . Her pain seemed to intensify to agony . . . Soon a drop of blood began to form at one of the foot wounds . . . Gradually the hands and the other wounds began to bleed . . . Toward 9 o'clock the flow of blood stopped, the pain seemed to go, and she appeared to sleep normally . . . On Saturday morning she appeared surprisingly fresh and youthful-looking, and in very good health...
...meets an unhappy woman whose husband bought her "freedom" from serfdom - but also tore her away from her lover, who remains a slave. At the house of a neighbor he watches the owner mercilessly bleed his peasants while affecting the most cultivated French manners. And another time a landowner tells him: "As I see it, the master is the master, and the peasant is the peasant... and that's all there...
...Peter of Prague, who, on his way to see the Pope in the year of 1263, was tortured by doubts whether the wafer he consecrated really became Christ's body, as church doctrine said it was. Miraculously at Bolsena, a small town near Orvieto, the Host began to bleed in Peter's hands. At Mass, spots of blood fell from the wafer onto the corporal, a white linen cloth upon which the chalice rests while on the altar...
...though he conceded that he had been supplying names to the FBI for five years. He had even taken Lattimore's name out of a recent piece for Collier's because "all concealed Communists can sue anyone for libel, not for the purpose of winning, but to bleed white anyone who accuses them...