Word: limbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deep-rooted emotions of longing and resentment, and their very presence on public platforms exerted incalculable pushes and pulls in the political spectrum. For all these reasons plus the expectation of a near-record turnout of 90 percent, few Germans except pollsters--were willing to go out on a limb with firm forecasts...
Fifteen minutes away at the City of Hope National Medical Center was a pediatric research center, endowed by a British couple, for the Queen to dedicate and tour. Outside, she stooped to talk with young patients, all seriously ill, some with limbs amputated. When she reached to shake one boy's hand, for a terrible moment it seemed as if it had come off; the limb turned out to be a china toy, and the imperturbable Queen passed it to one of her ladies in waiting and continued chatting...
...finally answer all the questions about the Soviet Union. The author, associate director of Harvard's Russian Research Center, is too aware of the ambiguities of Soviet life too conscious of the blinders any Westerner is forced to wear when looking at the USSR, to go out on a limb. Indeed, he performs an adept juggling act, usually balancing all sides to a problem and never maintaing that his findings are the truth. But his lucid study convincingly details the major dilemmas that the Soviet Union's new leaders face. Goldman doesn't speculate on what the Russians will...
...dismissed. Explained Sendler: "There were internal problems with his journalism." Ribowsky blames TV Guide researchers for the misattribution, and insists that the reporting about Bradley was accurate. Says Ribowsky: "They hired me to put a tougher edge on their stories, and when I did it they cut the limb...
...long-term goal?might be possible later, but not now. They do not want to give even the hint of an official endorsement before the West German elections, lest the U.S. appear to be leaving Helmut Kohl, a strong public supporter of the zero option, out on a limb...