Word: limbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation's calves, is economically inevitable (already nearly one-tenth of all New Jersey calves are so bred). One incidental bene fit, he observes, is that bulls, which almost invariably become vicious after their fourth or fifth year, will be largely eliminated as a menace to life & limb in the U.S. countryside...
...noon, a 30-man mob assembled in the reformatory yard. A stout rope was thrown over a low-hanging limb. James Scales, taut with fear, was dragged atop an empty oil drum. Suddenly Superintendent Neil, in the immemorial gesture of all Southern peace officers, shouted: "I don't want anything like that done here." Then he ducked. As the shotguns blasted, James Scales fell, his head and back studded with lead...
...blood started to flow and the foot got warm and pink." Thus, in the antiseptic gloom of a casualty clearing station in Belgium, 30-year-old Major William Thornton Mustard last week described a new surgical trick which he hopes will borrow time for many a war-mangled limb, many a life...
...good, for a man recruited now would not be fully trained "before next June." "I came to the conclusion that the only [solution] . . . was to recommend that we draw on the [zombies]. . . ." In refusing to accept this recommendation, the Government, Mr. Ralston felt, was climbing out on a limb, counting on a quick end to the war, on reduced casualty rates. Said Mr. Ralston: "If we were to be fair to our fighting men, we could not afford to take chances on these uncertainties." Nevertheless the Government moved doggedly ahead on its fixed course...
...whites who have bravely taken the Negro's part (sheriffs who have braved mobs to protect Negro prisoners, women who have leagued against lynching, trade-union organizers who have risked life & limb), the authors pay tribute. But Negroes, says Dr. Gordon B. Hancock, are bewildered by the number of sympathetic whites whose "finer feelings are obscured beneath a lack of moral courage ... a kind of 'Pontius Pilatism.'" The more cynical Negroes merely conclude that the saving grace of the white man is "his lack of unanimity in any program ... of oppression...