Word: limbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story of smalltown small talk, has used crutches since she was eight, when she lost her right leg in a bicycle accident. To Louise Baker life on crutches is not funny, but it can be fun. She argues her case persuasively in a witty autobiography: Out on a Limb (Whittlesey House...
Tough Break. In Sarnia, Ontario, Ronald Armstrong went to bed sound in limb, awoke a few hours later, felt a mysterious pain in his leg, found he had broken...
...trick of the week. In the New York Times his radio sponsor (the Frank H. Lee Co.) ran a full-page ad (cost: $4,800) announcing that "Pearson has attacked [the Ku Klux Klan] in radio broadcasts and newspaper columns. He was immediately . . . threatened with injury to life and limb should he set foot in [Georgia]. . . Mr. Pearson will deliver this Sunday's broadcast from the steps of the State capitol in Atlanta. . . . Mr. Pearson's life [has been insured] for One Million Dollars for the benefit of his family." Pearson kept his Rendezvous With Death, denounced...
...think I'm going out on a limb when I say we have some good boys back, and some who have entered recently," McCoy went on, "but you have to remember that the Harlow system is not something which is learned overnight, and even some of our best new boys may take a while before the Varsity is really a polished club...
...natural habitat of national chairmen of both parties is the end of a limb. Last week Republican National Chairman B. Carroll Reece was sitting comfortably on his. In Columbus, Ohio he predicted that the G.O.P. would win control of the Senate in November...