Word: limbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This offer may be someone's flight of fancy," Ornstein opined, "and we won't go out on a limb by accepting now. The whole thing seems dizzy to me," he added, as he stumbled down a short flight of steps...
...Toronto, they had grumbled about mild-mannered Harry Watson. He seemed backward about parting the enemy's hair with his hockey stick. He was too gentlemanly-a bad thing in present-day hockey, and especially during the Stanley Cup playoffs, when the players are tearing one another limb from limb. Last week in Boston Garden, Harry squared himself with Toronto fans, anyway. With seven or eight piston-like punches, he broke the nose of Boston Bruins Murray Henderson...
Although he is generally quite happy ever the results of the program, some events have left Dr. Thorndike in despair. A certain Eliot House veteran, after exercising a shattered arm into workable condition during the school year, wound up in a summer vacation accident and re-broke the limb in an identical place. He's hard at work again right now, with a good chance of regaining full use of the limb...
...President rested last week out on the end of a long limb of land-at Key West, Fla. Resting there with him was his counsel and legal adviser, Clark Clifford. While Clifford beamed on his smiling boss, Mr. Truman turned a tanned and apparently carefree face toward the photographers; Clifford himself glistened with confidence and sunburn oil. Looking at the two of them, no one would suspect the gravity of the problems which arrived daily in the pouch from, Washington. No one would suspect, in fact, that the country appeared to be getting ready to dump the whole Truman Administration...
...great difference between 1948's decline and the commodity slide of 1920. This time the farmers had a cushion of cash to fall back on. Their banks were bulging with savings. Said Karl Wagner, an Iowa hog-raiser: "Very few of us farmers are out on a limb. We've got bonds stuck away for occasions like this. I'm staying in business...