Word: limbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They sang even on the gallows. "The tones seemed somewhat discordant and yet there was harmony in it. Their bodies swayed to and fro and their every limb seemed to be keeping time. The drop trembled and shook as if all were dancing. The most touching scene on the drop was their attempts to grasp each other's hands, fettered as they were. . . . Three and four in a row were hand in hand swaying up and down with the rise and fall of their voices. One old man reached out on each side but could not grasp a hand...
Alfred S. Romer, for research in differentiation of limb musculature...
...brain child solely of the Mil Sci Department. Washington has directed each local unit to arrange its program to fit the war-time policy of the college in question. Harvard does not require that every man come to Summer School, leaving Mil Sci out on the curricular limb...
...diplomatic tug-of-war between the U.S. and Germany for the favors of Vichy was so tough last week that worn old Marshal Petain must have felt that he was being torn limb from limb. For the moment, U.S. diplomacy seemed the stronger, but there was always the chance that Germany would abandon diplomacy for destruction...
...Army announced a new rule on physical examinations: if men seem to draft-board doctors sound of wind & limb, they will be sent as needed to induction centers, where they will get a more thoroughgoing test. If they pass, they are soldiers...