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Word: limb (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...constitute a moat behind which it is still possible to examine and indict the destructive trends in our society. There may be some students at Harvard, perhaps on occasion even a stray faculty member, who in a moment of rage and frustration might feel like tearing the university limb from limb. From the standpoint of a commitment to human freedom such feelings are by no means totally irrational, because the universities do much more to sustain destructive trends--through the contribution of professional skills to the war and in numerous other ways -- than any amount of verbal criticism or even...

Author: By Barrington MOORE Jr., LECTURER ON SOCIOLOGY | Title: Barrington Moore Asks For Student Restraint | 11/8/1967 | See Source »

...been sustained by men who were willing to be faithful when their country was in need. Those men are still with us today. I strongly recommend to my friends who doth protest too much that they not forget those giants across the pond who are losing life and limb. If you change our course in midstream you will have to account to those who risked everything for their country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 13, 1967 | 10/13/1967 | See Source »

...League lead. The Big Red has hidden in upstate New York all fall and remains somewhat an unknown quantity, with a rookie quarterback pacing victories over Bucknell and Colgate. After wins over Rutgers and Columbia the Tigers are a known title pretender, but from this far out on the limb I see a surprise 23-21 decision for Cornell...

Author: By Robert P. Harshall jr., | Title: Princeton Faces Cornell In Saturday's Key Clash | 10/13/1967 | See Source »

...idea of a negotiated settlement, those who want a military solution, so to handle our relations with Hanoi and the NLF and so to gauge and present their responses and non-responses that those who disagree -- you and I and our friends -- are left well out on a limb. If we can have negotiations on equitable terms, that much to be desired. And the hope that this will be possible justifies the emphasis placed upon it in the title of this organization and by all here assembled. But there must be something more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Galbraith's Vietnam War Speech Calls For 'Moderate Solution' | 7/7/1967 | See Source »

...world they made for themselves, Siamese Twins Margaret and Mary Gibb were not only accustomed to their affliction. They came to prefer it. As adults they refused even to discuss the possibility of separation. To them, such a move would have seemed no less than amputation of a major limb. In recent weeks their feeling haunted their physician, Dr. John Appel, because though Mary seemed entirely healthy, Margaret was suffering from rapidly spreading cancer. But the sisters did not change their view, and last week when Margaret's cancer had spread to her lungs and heart, it had also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Physiology: United unto Death | 1/20/1967 | See Source »

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