Word: limb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Duke of Burgundy's men who captured Joan of Arc, who was then sold to the English for 10,000 gold crowns, but it was the English who turned her in to a clerical court (headed by Pierre Cauchon, Bishop of Beauvais). The court declared her excommunicate, a "limb of Satan," and handed her over to the secular arm, i.e., the English occupation authorities in northern France. The English burned her at the stake...
...Limb. In Chicago, Mrs. William Shorts admitted to detectives that in order to keep her husband home nights she had taken to hiding his artificial...
...week-with that silver plate in your head." So many other televiewers have warmly congratulated him for his triumph over facial paralysis, twisted spine and other dire but imaginary ills, that Sullivan has just about given up protesting that he is and always has been sound of wind and limb...
...course, some people are naturally conservative; they prefer to avoid taking a position wherever possible. They just don't believe in going out on a limb, when they don't even know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be partially junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...
Herman Hickman, Yale's large, round coach, really went out on the proverbial limb over the weekend. Hickman expounded on the strength of Ivy League football and arrived at the surprising conclusion that "the top three or four teams in our group are stronger than the top three or four teams of any other conference in the nation...