Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blood that was shed in the Temple Baptist Church spread in a widening stain through Lebanon, Tenn. last week; nobody seemed able to talk about anything else except the Rev. Randy Pike's "special service...
...Americans, but those who are prepared to penetrate the thickets of multiple names and ever-shifting titles will read a coolly shrewd account of a woman remarkable in her own right, and survey a stretch of history lit with the kind of irony that only the truly simple-minded shed upon great events. May was a square...
...Author Crisp is irreverent and serious by turn. He went into Operation Crusader (against Rommel's forces massed around Tobruk) in November 1941, full of beans and combat vinegar. By the end of the fourth day, "we shed our lightheartedness and eagerness. The sense of adventure had gone out of our lives, to be replaced by grimness and fear and a perpetual, mounting weariness of body and spirit." His U.S.-built MS light tanks-known to Crisp and his men as "Honeys"-mounted 37-mm. guns, whose shells bounced off the heavy German panzers like peas. To knock them...
...Probably not since the sway of the ancient theocracies has a ruling class had such influence over the child mind. A well-flogged lordling of Dr. Keate's Eton, a Dickens character sniveling in Dotheboys Hall, or even that refugee from the U.S. prep school, Holden Caulfield, would shed a tear for the winners in the Russian school system. It is a system destined to convert the countenance of a child into the Gromyko mask of panslavery...
...died a hero's death fighting Germans in World War II. In truth, quavered Grisha, he had deserted the very night he marched away to war, sneaked home to the hiding place his parents made for him under the manure pile at the back of the family goat shed...