Word: limb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...road. With them walked an elderly woman. She was hit, and literally exploded: she had obviously been carrying ammunition in her pack. "That I don't like. If you have never seen arms and legs flying through the air . . ." says Tatum, his sentence dangling like a severed limb...
...There is a danger to life and limb in such excited mob action--for instance, the fireman who had his eye cut by a thrown light bulb Sunday...
Spears, a fine line-backers, was hampered by two knee injuries last fall but he underwent an operation in December and appears to be perfectly sound of limb now. He was still able to crack the Princeton defense at the end of the game, after playing both ways all afternoon...
Before an audience of 100,000 in Boston last week, Navy Secretary Francis Matthews put himself out on a long, shaky limb. He did it deliberately...
...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 those people, the vague generality must be partially junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...