Word: limbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weather gives us a break and we get in some practice," was Coach Barnaby's sole comment as the Varsity tennis team prepared to travel to Medford to face Tufts today. Although Harvard has never dropped a match to the Jumbos, Barnaby refuses to go out on a limb about today's match...
...this year, with seasoned veterans hitting their prewar stride, Coach Mikkola's team may give the man who letters in the new records a busy season. Without crawling too far out on the limb, it is safe to say that records in the hammer, shot, discus, pole-vault, and hurdles will all be in serious jeopardy as soon as official competition gets under...
...bump into one face to face your only hope is to press thumb and little finger into your palm and hold up the other three fingers. Then the chickcharney may take you for a comrade; he himself has only three fingers or three toes on each limb...
...voice trembled, quietly telling the inside story of disaster in his cold unlighted office. That night when I got home for a late supper, I was scared witless by a BBC voice saying down the hall: 'Coalition ... coalition ... coalition' and thought for a wild moment that our limb had been sawed off. It was the report of Attlee's speech, confirming all our dope that coalition was unthinkable...
Grossman & Allen suggest that refrigeration might even make it possible to restore an amputated arm or leg: "If a limb is fairly cleanly amputated, for example in a sawmill accident, there is a challenge to any nearby physician to pack such a part in ice and send it along with the patient to a hospital...