Word: limbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those economy-minded legislators are left hanging on the end of a long and lonesome limb. The new budget contains the smallest requests for ordinary peacetime funds of any one since Herbert Hoover was peeping cautiously around corners. Of the 109 billions asked by the President, only four and a half are to go for regular expenses; every other nickel will go into the maw of Mars. Except for statutory outlays, such as debt retirement and social security payments, every civil agency except agriculture has been cut to the bone. The case of agriculture is simply explained, for Congress itself...
...England. Columnist George Fielding Eliot wrote that Japs would be "swiftly and decisively beaten." Newscaster Raymond Gram Swing predicted Hitler would either retire or be ousted by the German Army. Author Fletcher Pratt said only a miracle could save Russia "from utter defeat." Foreign Correspondent John T. Whitaker limb-climbed with a flat forecast that the Nazis would invade Spain and Portugal in the spring. Ex-CBS Berlin Newscaster Harry Flannery agreed with him, added the Azores and Canary Islands. For the same year Adolf Hitler promised the German people "the greatest victory in our history...
After he had extinguished more blazes he turned to explosives, risking life and limb to blow up a clothesline of Primacord, powerful enough to cut through a two by four. Then he lit an explosive incendiary, which blow up a clothesline of Primacord, powerful enough to cut through a two by four. Then he lit an explosive incendiary, which blow molten magnesium several hundred feet in spite of a wire screen to protect the audience...
...allows the patient to be transported almost as soon as his broken limb has been set-a fact of great importance to naval surgeons...
...LIMB-John Myers Myers-Dutton...