Word: limbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most of the U.S. The ardor with which U.S. fans pursue baseball is pallid compared with the interest of soccer fans in the 50-odd nations in which it is a national game. In Buenos Aires, referees are sometimes hustled out under police escort lest they be torn limb from limb by the spectators. From Moscow to Melbourne, the action and drama of the game thrill crowds who consider American football slightly less exciting than watching grass grow...
...physical discomforts of the front shoved most of this attitude to the background, the report goes on. In fact, the mud and K-rations made a deeper impression than the constant threat to life and limb...
...protected. The union bragged on the first day that it had kept 97% of the city's 11,814 cabs in the garage. Manhattan streets were free of honking cabs and their aggressive jockeys; it was almost possible to cross a street without danger to life & limb...
...German soldiers did not come home. It also means that many others came back like the anonymous German who appeared in a news picture last week, as a grim symbol of postwar German life. He hobbled along on one leg, while his buddy carried his new artificial limb in his rucksack...
Coach Rene Peroy, who never has time to scout, doesn't know a thing about the Bowdoin team. He is confident of his own squad, though, and predicts that "they won't do too bad." For Peroy, this is going out on a limb...