Word: limb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...famous opinion by Judge (later Supreme Court Justice) Benjamin Cardozo, however, the New York Court of Appeals upheld MacPherson and extended manufacturers' liability to third parties for any product "reasonably certain to place life and limb in danger when negligently made." The decision left intact one vital requirement: the plaintiff must prove that the manufacturer was negligent...
...m.p.h. on the cinder-covered ice of Lake St. Clair. And it was not long before an enchanted U.S. public was thrilling to the exploits of a whole new set of heroes-Barney Oldfield, Ralph De Palma, and the mysterious "Baron von Rickenbacher*-helmeted hotspurs who risked life and limb in the glorious pursuit of speed...
...Limb. Washington reporters must master the delicate art of writing news that is offered on the record, off the record, not for attribution, not for direct attribution, or for background. They must learn how to attribute stories to a "high-level source" in the White House, the State Department or the Pentagon when it is obvious to most readers who that high-level source is. In an era of instant communication, neither the President of the U.S. nor any other high-level source can afford the dangers of hasty misinterpretation. Information that has been passed along not-for-attribution...
Correspondents have learned to be wary of the anonymous Government official anxious to launch a trial bal loon for some new policy. The reporter can never be sure when an official denial will leave him and his story out on a limb. Secretary of Defense Robert Mc-Namara, for example, recently attended a background dinner with reporters at which he remarked that nuclear weapons had not been ruled out for use in Viet Nam. Columnist Doris Fleeson, who was not at the dinner, got the details nonetheless. When she printed them, McNamara, following the established rules of the game, denied...
Surgery of the kind Griffiths was suggesting is now almost a routine measure to restore symmetry and balance when one limb, particularly a leg, has been shortened by disease or accident. But there is always a danger of infection; the bone ends may not unite properly, or there may be complications in the soft tissues. An orthopedist will not lightly undertake such operations for the sole purpose of reducing height. Ann Rowston's extreme tallness, however, justified the procedure, and Sur geon Griffiths satisfied himself that she was healthy enough to stand the strain...