Word: limb
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Trouble on a Limb. Ambiguity is an ancient and necessary tool of diplomacy. In the case of Quemoy and Matsu, which are closer to the China mainland than to Formosa, it provides the U.S. with a flexibility and freedom of action, i.e., the President allows himself the chance to assess the circumstances of attack before opening fire on Communist China. Dulles has a second reason for ambiguity: in Britain, where the defense of Quemoy and Matsu is unpopular, the Churchill government has gone a long way to endorse the U.S. stand on defending Formosa, runs the risk of weakening even...
...Limbed People. Medic, however, receives so many reverent letters written by sufferers from real or imagined ills that the program has called upon the Los Angeles County Medical Association for help in answering them. LACMA forwards the letters to the appropriate medical associations in the states of origin and keeps in touch with all cases, to be sure that "people are not left out on a limb." As a barometer of the nation's health, the biggest volume of letters was received after programs dealing with 1) deafness, 2) heart surgery, 3) corneal transplantation, and 4) cleft palate...
...what he learned: "Now that we're actually land managers, we've got an awful lot of real estate to get the greatest good out of for the greatest number. Someday we may be as good as the Europeans. Over there, in Germany for example, if a limb falls off a tree in a wind, they've practically got a man waiting to catch...
...York City's Institute for the Crippled and Disabled, and he arrived in Korea with three spare arms for himself, plus 60 second-hand legs and the makings-joints, screws, webbing, leather strapping, billets of English willow -for 80 more. He was also ready to set up a limb-manufacturing plant in Korea...
...trying to keep it all on a simple, practical level," Missionary Torrey explains. "We could speed limb-making with power machinery, but we don't. There's always the electric-power problem here, and this foreign interest in Korea isn't going to last forever. When supplies from abroad are cut off. then what? Everything we're using now we get locally...