Word: limbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...limb. Around 70% of those originally selected qualify for Pensacola: 70% of the remainder survive the shortened but still tough course there...
Said Columnist David Lawrence, edging out on a limb: "Notwithstanding the opposition of the Republican politicians, the nomination of Wendell Willkie, which was believed impossible a few weeks ago, is decidedly within the realm of a possibility today...
Because of the uncertainty of any contest with Yale, predictors often find themselves left out on a limb after the final results have been tabulated. The importance of the meet tightens up some star performers, makes mediocre men turn in times and distances beyond their capabilities, and, thus, is apt to result in a complete reversal of past form...
John Nance Garner. Cactus Jack is 71, sound in wind & limb, a hickory conservative who does not represent the Old South of magnolias, hoopskirts, pillared verandas, but the New South: moneymaking, industrial, hardboiled, still expanding too rapidly to brood over social problems. He stands for oil derricks, sheriffs who use airplanes, prairie skyscrapers, mechanized farms, $100 Stetson hats. Conservative John Garner appeals to many a conservative voter...
...Secretary Stephen T. Early called in reporters for a word of friendly but wet-blanket advice "not to write yourself out on the end of a limb, or to attribute what you assume the President, Mr. Hull and Mr. Welles are discussing to any allegedly authorized or unimpeachable or reliable sources or to friends close to the President or to the Secretary of State or to the Under Secretary of State; that neither the President, nor the Secretary of State nor the Under Secretary of State will have any word to say to the press or to any of their...