Word: limbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, on the sixth day of waiting, Reuters flashed the bare news that Browder was actually in the Russian capital. Disappointed U.S. Communists gathered that he was sound of limb. But, still uninformed of what he was up to in Moscow, they might have to sweat out some more of Browder's lost weekends before he returns to his "Service for Policy Makers...
Forthwith, Huey climbed out on a limb over Memorial Drive, felt an old prediction coming on, and said...
...harshest critics conceded that it had done a creditable job of holding the line in wartime. Its best friends admitted that ever since the Administration had blithely abandoned most rationing and wage controls after war's end, OPA had been left hanging on a long and wobbly limb...
...Whatever limb they lost, U.S. war casualties kept their funnybones. Cartoon ist Al Capp, creator of Li'l Abner Yokum, discovered this when he toured Army hospitals, found that amputees scorned dust-dry rehabilitation tomes, laughed their postwar worries away with comic books. Capp, who lost a leg as a young man, was sure that legless G.I.s could learn and laugh at the same time...
Most servicemen amputees (about 17,000 to date) get their artificial limbs from A.L.M.A. members. The Army fits them only with temporary appliances before discharge. Then the veteran gets a permanent limb, paid for by the Veterans Administration, from a private shop...