Word: limbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There seemed little doubt that the election would be close, unless all the polls and the experts were wrong. Pollster Gallup gave Franklin Roosevelt a slight edge (51%) but had left himself plenty of room to get back off the limb. The FORTUNE survey, conducted by Elmo Roper, gave Candidate Roosevelt 53.5%, but it also pointed to the numerous imponderables that make poll-taking risky work in 1944. Some of them: 1) the soldier vote; 2) migrating war workers; 3) the difficulty of poll-taking under gas rationing; 4) the "silent vote." The one new development in the FORTUNE poll...
...Toronto last week canny Finance Minister James Lorimer Ilsley did what he has seldom done-went out on a limb. He told Canadians there would be jobs for all after the war in Europe ends...
...feet. These became more and more swollen until the skin was tightly stretched and assumed a peculiar bluish transparency. . . . Fissures appeared [which] were readily infected. . . . Farther up the leg, the edema distends the skin; and over the lower leg especially, this has often a high glaze. The whole limb up to the groin was often [swollen]. The external genitalia were early affected by the edema...
HATCH (thundering): "Because we remember that 20 years ago the American people were led out on a limb. . . . We shall not be caught there again...
...this mean that the New York market had a long rise ahead? No Wall Streeter would climb out on this limb. In fact, many were betting the other way. But for the nonce the cheer overbalanced the gloom...