Word: limb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...relevance. He even resents being put on the line by someone's saying, "I would like to hear what the Dean thinks about this proposal." Ford believes any outspokeness distorts votes. "Some people who disagree with a plan will think that I have gone so far out on a limb that they had better vote with me to avoid my embarrassment, while others react to what may look like a Dean's attempt to make the Faculty's decision for it and oppose the matter...
...group of self-styled "destruction artists." Among the crowd-pleasers: Vienna's Hermann Nitsch, who stuffed his trousers with calves' brains, then dragged the bloody carcass of a lamb around the courtyard. Artist Ralph Ortiz and Judson Gallery Director Jon Hendricks had planned to tear limb from limb two live chickens, one white and one black, as a ritual killing symbolic of U.S. racial strife. The event failed to come off when a couple of humanitarian Philistines spirited the birds to safety...
...down a steep embankment to the edge of a small stream where the boys had been playing. Kenneth was nowhere in sight. But two snarling German shepherds and a stray boxer were. The dogs lunged. Mrs. Goodman kept them at bay with a rake, and Gene scrambled onto the limb of a fallen tree to escape their fanged jaws. "Don't let the dogs get me," he pleaded...
Gene shinnied along the limb until he was dangling about four feet above the stream. Thinking him safe, and unable to fend off the dogs, Mrs. Goodman ran back to the house and tele phoned her husband Eugene, 26, a self-employed exterminator who was working part time in a market at nearby Lynchburg. Goodman sped home in his pickup truck, found his wife hysterical and barely capable of pointing out to him the area where she had last seen Gene. Thrashing wildly down the hill and shouting his sons' names as he ran, Goodman was brought up short...
Slippery Stitching. Surgeons have dreamed for centuries of making just the sort of replacement of a diseased or injured limb or organ that Dr. Barnard made last week. But when they tried to make their dreams reality, they found themselves encaged by invisible but seemingly invincible forces, mysterious beyond their understanding. Italian surgeons during the Renaissance occasionally succeeded in repairing a sword-slashed nose or ear with flesh from the patient's own arm, but got nowhere with person-to-person grafts. The first widely attempted transplants were blood transfusions, from lamb to man or man to man. Almost...