Word: limbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many print journalists suggested that the networks had been reckless-and some network executives were inclined to agree. Said Roone Arledge, president of ABC News: "A lot of information was being passed on by questionable sources." But Cronkite thought otherwise: "The Reagan people got too far out on a limb. They passed the word in the hall that the deal was set. If we were out on a limb at all, it was by taking that at face value...
...sunny day in Africa 10 million years ago, give or take a few million, Mr. and Mrs. Ramapithecus and their children were out foraging for food. Like their primate cousins in the forest, they usually swung gracefully from limb to limb searching out nuts, fruits and berries. But this day was different. A fierce rainstorm had knocked all their favorites off the branches, and the Ramas, alas, were forced to descend from the trees to find something...
...fact that he was appointed to nearly every significant post he has held. His liberal idealism is tempered by a well-developed sense of political self-preservation; he knows when to shut up. He would rather compromise and build a coalition of moderates than stand out on a limb with extremists. And above all, Fritz Mondale lacks the limitless politics ambition that governs the actions of so many of his colleagues...
...argue persuasively that these changes made sense because of the evolving situation, the switches dismayed the allies. Had they quickly followed Carter's initial tough policy, notes the ambassador of a European country, the allies would have been caught by the change: "We would have been out on a limb and you would have sawed it off. That's why we're a little wary of being told now that we have to be tough...
Bakshian spent two months writing. Late at night, a glass of port in one hand and his brain in the other, Bakshian looked out over the Potomac and composed his first book. The publisher asked him, he explains, to go out on a limb, to write a book handicapping the chances of the candidates in search of the Republican and Democratic presidential nominations. Bakshian sees his book as something that may educate the electorate and "help us explain how these people get into office." He stops to preach. "If people are that goddamned concerned, then they...