Word: spilt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is my country. I am part of the melting pot. I was born here, and I want to die here, and every drop of my blood will be spilt to protect those I cherish on this American soil. I am an American first, last and always, and the American freedom shall be ours forever...
Political blood was spilt last week in Britain over the question of censorship, and the popularity of Winston Churchill's Government was the sufferer...
Last week Michigan's isolationist Senator Vandenberg spilt the news of Franklin Roosevelt's secret treaty. By threatening to stir up opposition in tax-hungry States and cities, Senator Vandenberg forced the hand of long Tom Connally, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. From Chairman Connally: a promise that terms of the tax treaty will be made public...
...could see its colour. It was a flat-topped rock . . . rising to something like six feet above the ground, and it was red-brown and gleaming, for it was entirely covered with the blood of the beasts that had been sacrificed on it during the night. . . . The colour of spilt blood is not properly a colour, it is in itself discoloured, it is a visible display of putrescence. In every crevice of the red-brown rock there had been stuck wax candles, which now hung down in a limp fringe of greasy yellow tails, smeared with blood...
...President's oval study, the words of his fighting speech four days before were still ringing in their memories: (We wished to avoid shooting. But the shooting has started. And history has recorded who fired the first shot.} The shooting had gone on; U.S. blood had been spilt, U.S. lives had been lost...