Word: bleeds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remarkable as its reputation. To the agonizing, centuries-old why of antiSemitism, Author Schwarz-Bart replies with a non sequitur -there'll always be a Jewry. At times this makes his novel a disconcerting cross between The Wall and a Jewish Cavalcade. His persecuted characters bleed purple prose, and he persistently confuses an assault on the nerves with a cry from the heart. Nevertheless, there are a great many moments when the book is as affecting as a wronged child's tears, and as unanswerable...
Bends & Bubbles. For the untrained or careless diver, Aqua-Lunging presents a host of dangers: swimming too long in cold water can subtly bleed off his body heat until he finds himself suddenly exhausted ; holding his breath during the last 30 ft. of ascent can rupture his lungs as they expand under the rapidly decreasing pressure; successive deep descents can cripple him with the old diver's disease of the bends unless he decompresses the nitrogen bubbles in his blood by lingering at graduated stages...
Kennedy v. Humphrey: "I just can't bleed all over the floor like Hubert does. If you check our records, you'll find that in 95% of the cases, our voting has been the same. But we're temperamentally different. He likes to lambaste; I don't think it pays off. Does that make him more liberal than me? Hell, my voting record isn't perfect, but he's got soft spots...