Word: bleeds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...erratic that they could not learn easily. Most of the other ''children were so stupid (I.Q. 69 to 96) and ill-behaved that they had to repeat classes, attend special classes or even give up school entirely. One little girl bit people just to see them bleed, and was expelled from school for dancing on the desks and the piano...
...Stealth. No gun salvos in Moscow record the guerrilla's exploits: they are small victories, pinpricks in a war of titans. But enough pinpricks can bleed, exhaust, inflict painful wounds. Last week, a Soviet communiqué recorded these pinpricks...
...matter of fact, the New England weather has been pretty comfortable this year. But I, for one, hate to think of the coming winter after two years on the southern fringes of the U. S. I tried to give a transfusion last week and couldn't bleed at all. Seems that my corpuscles couldn't bear to leave me, or each other. We three have come to be very attached to one another...
...suggest a U.S. buying commission handling the whole deal, and directing policy to bleed from Jap territory essentials which cannot be imported by air cargo or even over a reopened Burma Road. This cannot be done with Chinese dollars because their high velocity forces them back into free China; likewise U.S. dollars eventually do the same. Gold with real value will go underground, and cannot be effectively outlawed by the Japs. Even if passing into Jap hands, its use to them will be negligible as they have already sufficient (gold) for their own purposes...
...that the founder of a new school needed [in the post-Civil War South]," he says, "was a little.learning and a lot of physical strength. Sawney . . . had both." A tough man, he sometimes came to class with a scratch on his hand and "allowed it to bleed unnoticed as the boys sat in awe at the brave show...