Word: limbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pink-cheeked Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer last week crawled tentatively out on a limb. Said he: "The end of the recession may be at hand." Sad-faced old Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, was not ready to go quite that far. He was "very definitely encouraged," though he did not think that "disinflation" was ended...
...began his studies at Christian College and Seminary in Michigan, "all human life, all its habits, its mores, was against him. The doors and the bathrooms and the beds and the clothes." The petite coed of his choice turned him down; his grip was a menace to life & limb, and after one embrace of his "massive passion," she had to call the doctor...
Shirley May France's clothes still hung on the hickory limb but she clung anxiously to a French beach, waiting for southwesterly winds to die down. The winds did not deter a hefty, partially crippled, 34-year-old Belgian mining machine manufacturer named Fernand du Moulin. Around 10 o'clock one night last week Fernand left a champagne party given by his wife, anointed himself with grease and took to the choppy waters off France's Cap Gris Nez. He struck out with a powerful breast stroke, stopping now & then to tread water and consume 20 fortifying...
...therefore, being sound of mind, wind, and limb, having at least as much sense as an animal, do hereby declare war on my enemies, and ... I will fight them every step of the way until we achieve the equality as American citizens which is guaranteed by our Constitution...
...close observation Beebe (who will be 72 July 29), liked to squat motionless as a stump in the forest or sit for hours on the limb of a tree. For long-range work he used giant binoculars mounted on a tripod; with these he could make out the scent gland of the hind leg of a butterfly a quarter of a mile away. "I often wondered," he says, in a sentence of purest Beebe, "what the soaring vultures, looking down, made of this strange creature with great tubular eyes and five legs...