Word: bleeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disease is anything but royal and far from rare. It affects one out of every 20,000 males and can strike anyone-even those with no previous hemophilia history-who inherits the genetic defect preventing the production of certain blood fractions involved in the clotting process. Hemophiliacs do not bleed more easily than others; they merely bleed longer. They do not die from pinpricks or cut fingers. What hemophiliacs fear more than knives or scissors are the internal hemorrhages that can cripple and destroy joints, ruin the brain, or, if uncontrolled, kill. More than half of all hemophiliacs die before...
...community affairs officer from MIT appeared at the hearing to warn that the schools cannot sustain a full tax burden: "Like Shylock. I say to the people here, prick us and we bleed...
...Like Shylock, I say to the people here, prick us and we bleed," said Milne, warning that the universities cannot sustain the burden of full taxation...
...Rosenbergs' letters have been published before. Some were circulated to generate sympathy during the long appeal process. Tune has not been kind to Ethel's and Julius' prose, either. Embarrassingly personal passages about the torments of separation from each other and from their children bleed profusely into the strident hyperbole of 1930s left-wing rhetoric. An occasional sentence survives questions of guilt, innocence and politics. On a visit to Sing Sing, the older Michael vented his ten-year-old's curiosity about death. Later, Julius wrote with simple power to Ethel: "He asked...
...That's inadvertent...I am not a social protest artist...If you photograph what's before your eyes and you're in an impoverished environment, you're not--and shouldn't be. I think--trying to change the world or comment on this saying. 'Open up your hearts and bleed for these people.' I never dream of saying anything like that. That's too presumptuous and naive to think you can change society by a photograph or anything else...I equate that with propaganda. I think that's a lower rank of purpose and value in your work. I believe...