Word: limbed
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...these days. Twenty minutes pass. Ichiro doesn't move. His head is tilted up to watch a TV set hanging from the wall. He stares, grinning. He would look like an amused child, except he's too alert. He looks about as harmless as a panther on a tree limb...
...course, some people are naturally conservative; they avoid taking a position whenever possible. They just don’t want to have to go out on a limb when they don’t 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...
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon threw down the gauntlet on Sunday following the most devastating suicide bombing of the 18-month intifada. In an escalating war in which neither side has been bold enough to go out on a limb for peace, Sharon vowed to decimate the forces behind the attacks, saying, “We must fight against this terrorism, fight with no compromise, pull up these wild plants by the roots, smash their infrastructure.” Meanwhile, Palestinian Authority President Yassir Arafat remains silent in response to President George W. Bush’s demand that...
...taxi veers away from Guangzhou East Train Station, a recorded voice reminds me to please buckle my seat belt. This is excellent advice, because most taxi drivers in China have a nihilistic approach to life, limb and traffic law. There's just one problem: taxis in this town don't have seat belts. That's Guangzhou, a town making and remaking itself so rapidly it can be forgiven if it forgets to install a few safety features along the way. The entrepreneurial spirit in this capital of Guangdong province is celebrated during the Chinese Export Commodities Fair, held every April...
...variety of ugly ways. Snaring is one of them, a practice banned in some European countries - but not in Britain. Snares are supposed to be checked within a limit of 12 hours, by which time foxes, half crazed with fear, have been known to gnaw off a trapped limb. In turn, shooting often results in wounding, after which death can be slow and agonizing - surely no kinder than the quick end inflicted by other animals, which is after all the way most prey die in the wild. Even the government-authorized Burns Report published in June 2000 did not find...