Word: limbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, some people are naturally conservative; they prefer to avoid taking a position wherever possible. They just don't believe in going out on a limb, when they don't even know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be partially junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...
...President's hard line by presenting him with a "veto pencil" more than a foot long. Thus far neither party seems ready to make the tough decisions necessary to pay for the programs it wants; each seems to be trying to maneuver the other further out on a limb. Looking toward the inevitable confrontation between the White House and the Democrats, Hollings predicts, "It's gonna be one big high noon...
...University of California at Santa Cruz. He suggests that the decay of radioactive elements within 1987A's cloud of debris is now generating the light. If he is right, gamma-ray emissions from decaying cobalt 56 should start showing up this summer. Concedes Woosley: "I'm out on a limb." A more radical theory, put forth by Princeton Astrophysicist Jeremiah Ostriker, proposes that the neutron star that formed at 1987A's center when Sanduleak exploded has turned into an extremely rapidly rotating pulsar that is leaking energy and illuminating the surrounding debris...
Earlier discoveries of Homo habilis fossils consisted only of skulls, teeth and questionable limb bones, forcing scientists to guess at the creature's size and proportions. But the dramatic new find, which includes skull, arm bones, thigh and shin fragments from a single adult female, permits a more accurate assessment. The length of the thigh bone is a gauge of height, and the relative length of the upper arm bone to the upper leg bone is a vital clue to body build. The remains, described in the British journal Nature last week, belong to a creature that lived about...
...that for stepping out on a limb...