Word: bleeds
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...Those who recently died in Behawalpur were the victims of an evil we haven’t seen since World War II. It cheers when women and children bleed to death. Its powerful nihilism threatens Western civilization. Most importantly, it is an evil that must be stopped...
...have to provide 55,000 tons a month to feed all 6 million people thought to be in need. Another threat to the refugees appeared in the Pakistan border town of Quetta, where 75 people have caught Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, an Ebola-like disease that causes victims to bleed to death from the body's orifices. Seemingly anxious to reduce...
With all that weighing on his mind, responsibility demanded not only that Summers share in our mourning, but also that he secure the Harvard campuses and coordinate the University’s response. Summers carried out those responsibilities with admirable sensitivity. His insistence that fear not bleed into hate—that diversity be protected to the utmost—is a tribute to the power of principles at this institution. Moreover, his efforts to encourage donations and provide financial relief to the victims—including the University’s $1 million contribution to scholarships for the victims?...
...There is a sudden commotion. A wizened Afghan in rags has stopped pulling his cart and is banging his head on the ground so hard that it has begun to bleed. "Allah, I surrender!" he wails, "If you don't let me pass, I'll earn no money. I'd rather die than go back empty-handed to my starving children." The display of self-mortification works; the Pakistanis gently dust off the bleeding old man and let him through, which provokes a wave of fierce clamoring and shoving among the other Afghans crowding the border. They are all just...
...Distances are almost unimaginable to outsiders: once a week Pilton makes a 570-km round trip just to go to the bank, or for a haircut. Roads run in numbingly straight lines, up to 30 km without a bend, their ends shimmering and liquefying in optical illusions as they bleed into the sky; families live on remote cattle properties, hundreds of kilometers from their nearest neighbors. As a result, country friendliness here extends to a code of mutual assistance on the road. Vehicles take such a pounding that breakdowns are common. Stranded travelers are not strangers to these folk...