Word: limbed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...help get Sadat off that wobbly limb, U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers sent three notes to Cairo within the past two weeks, promising U.S. help in future negotiations if Egypt would extend the ceasefire. U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, stretching the facts, told the Security Council that "some progress" had occurred in a series of talks conducted by U.N. Mediator Gunnar Jarring, giving Thant "grounds for cautious optimism." That also gave Sadat grounds to extend the ceasefire...
...reporting the fashion industry's plunge ' into midiskirts last year, TIME went out on a limb and predicted that leg lovers would somehow stage a counterattack. They have, and with a vengeance, as is made clear in this week's Modern Living section in a story and color pictures on fashion's latest sensation-the superbrief hot pants. The new phenomenon startles even devotees of the miniskirt. Reporter-Researcher Mary Themo, who provided much of the legwork for the story, is enthusiastic about the hemline's latest caprice and is looking for the "right pair...
...example, Soldier Blue made ample use of amputees, many children, to reproduce the results of a bloody massacre. Isn't there something chilling-not to say inhuman-in having a child reenact the loss of a limb? It made for a great press of course. All the national weeklies ran off descriptions of how the mild-mannered creator of Lilies was out to make the most brutal film of the year. And all in the name of artistic integrity. No one bothered to question this senseless escalation of violence on the screen. Say Fred, did you see how Nichols...
...rescue? Fischer doubts it. "Too much is at stake," he thinks, "for Mitchell to run the risk of this case backfiring. The charges are far more serious than those leveled at the Chicago Seven. It would be uncharacteristic of the man to go put on a legal limb, to risk the resumption of massive antiwar protests in the wake of an abortive trial...
...wardrobe of lengths" idea. But no matter. As Weir now recalls: "We made a decision. We decided to make a stand for the long length. We jumped right in on it with both feet." Brady adds: "We hit the development pretty hard. We went way out on a limb, saying this was the coming fashion before there was really hard evidence that...