Word: limb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...merger case. About the only strong opposition to the move could come from the competitive New York Central, which not so long ago had designs on the B. & O. itself and complained that a C. & O.-B. & O. hookup would leave the Central "holding the bag out on a limb." (The Central started talking merger with the Pennsylvania in earnest only after the C. & O. and B. & O. refused to consider a threeway tie with the Central...
...designers, planners for this unprecedented achievement. Only one group went unmentioned, the men who built these edifices-the bricklayers, ironworkers, plumbers, electricians, carpenters, painters, operating engineers, lathers, in short, the building tradesmen, those who brave freezing weather, driving rains, torrid sunshine and who sometimes gamble-and lose-life and limb to erect these grandiose edifices...
Hancock's production opened in New York one day after the well-established Living Theater (Connection) opened Man Is Man, also based on Brecht's play. The Herald Tribune called Hanoock's version "sound in wind and limb and ear and eye...serving not only Brecht but off- Broadway as well." The Living Theatre version was critialzed as a "flailing work, possessed neither of a design of its own nor, it is to be hoped, of Brecht...
...meeting got back to his office and found a wire-service report on Hodges' statement. Said he derisively: "Guess what I've just picked off the wires?" Near week's end, Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey vociferously joined Hodges out on the tax-cut limb...
...almost seemed as if the many surgical specialists of Mass General had been waiting for him for ten years. For all that time, they had been sure of their ability to put a severed human limb back in place, with bones, blood vessels, nerves, muscles and skin all reconnected-but they had never had a suitable case. In most accidental amputations, the limb is too badly mangled, and the patient's general condition too poor. Ev Knowles was different...