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Word: bleeds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wine & Waltzes. Last spring in her 28th year a mysterious wound, two inches deep, opened up in Maria's lower right side, and slashes appeared on her thin wrists and feet. When these wounds began to bleed on Good Friday and on two subsequent Fridays, few doubted that they were actually the stigmata...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: They Did Cast Lots | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...sight of her bare shoulder and its dazzling whiteness, some sort of craziness possessed me; instead of putting my lips to the cheek she offered me, fascinated by her dazzling shoulder, I gave it a great bite . . . My cousin screamed with pain and I with horror. She began to bleed and I to spit with disgust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Immoral Moralist | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

Against the well-intentioned advice of nearly every Kansas GOPolitico, he announced his intention of making his sixth campaign for the Senate. "Young Bill" White, son of Emporia's late sage, was sure he knew why: Alf Landon had put him up to it to bleed votes from Capper's rival in the primary and Landon's archfoe, ex-Governor Andrew Schoeppel. White said so in an Emporia Gazette editorial. In a tearful statement, Capper replied that Young Bill was mistaken; the decision to run was "mine and mine alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KANSAS: Finis for Capper | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...next moment, listeners all over the U.S. heard father's voice. Father said: "I'm going to let you have it in the belly, see, so you can bleed to death nice and slow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hackensack's Shame | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

...Lambeg drummers, who wallop their four-foot-high Lambegs with cane whips 30 inches long. The noise, they say, is like that an elephant makes-but an elephant cannot make it staccato. A Lambeg drummer isn't doing anything at all until his wrists begin to bleed from smacking against the drum; when they see that Orange blood, the crowd, thinking of the Battle, always cheers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND: And Quiet Flows the Boyne | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

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