Word: limbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation's top football teams, Michigan emerged from last week's scrimmaging soundest in wind & limb. In fact, it looked as if Coach Fritz Crisler's men could get a better battle by playing their own second team than they could from anyone they had faced so far. The Michiganders embarrassed poor Pittsburgh, 69 to 0. In its first three games, Michigan has scored 173 points to 13 for its opponents...
...single airplane even for reconnaissance since we did not carry out our promise to put through the Eight and One Third Air Group program. By persuading the Chinese Government to adopt American equipment and then refusing ammunition, we have put these soldiers on the end of a very long limb. ... If Manchuria should be abandoned to the Communists or should fall into their hands by conquest, a course of events fatal to China would follow...
...overcome injuries by coordinating his style of play to fit the particular aliment-in contrast to the player who gets knocked out of kilter like a delicate watch with a grain of sand in it when hit by injury. The fellow who can keep going by making the injured limb do twice the work while the weak one mends is your so-called iron...
...Dallas, Vern Swartsfager, Curate of St. Matthews' Cathedral, has rescued hundreds of teen-agers like Benny from crime and the police. He has won the respect of gangsters, delinquents, tycoons and teachers. But Father Swartsfager himself has not always been so singleminded. The son of an artificial limb manufacturer, he was thrown out of three schools and two universities (Temple and the University of Pennsylvania) for "recalcitrance." He had no idea what he wanted to do ("All I knew was that I didn't want to be an artificial limb manufacturer"). He became a sportwriter, later switched...
Last week, as events reinforced the limb on which he had long been impudently perching, Stabler gibed: "Get yourself a compass, a divining rod, walk backward through a dark alley at three minutes after midnight and everything will be made clear. The first of them who comes out honestly and admits that the hocus-pocus of the Dow theory made him miss nine weeks of the bull market will deserve a seat on the Stock Exchange, upholstered in bearskin...