Word: limbed
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...grabbed a stout piece of rope from Hamer's, and he set straight to work. Throwing the rope up and over the strong limb, he started trying to recall the right knot--he mustn't fail at this too. But with all his years of studying scripture, he'd lost the knotting skills of his childhood on his father's scratch farm (Judas was the only one of the Twelve from outside the fishing villages of Galilee...
...holiday menu around Cousin Aldo's fatal allergy to starch and the ever-present danger of getting your hand stuck in the turkey, the coming weeks present a minefield of social embarrassment and culinary disaster. Hopefully, FM's guide to stuffing a turkey will save both life and limb...
...scaredy-cats out there, here's a news flash: typing your credit-card number into landsend.com is just as safe - if not safer - than reading the number to a catalog's sales rep over the phone. If you really want to go out on a limb, hand your Visa to a waiter. "Consumer fears are overblown," says David Schatsky, e-commerce analyst at Jupiter Communications. "There's not a whole heck of a lot to worry about...
...emphasis on time? Doctors have identified a "golden hour" after heart attacks, accidents and other emergencies in which they can do the most to preserve life and limb. The purpose of giving first aid is to reduce further harm until medical help arrives, which in urban areas is usually within 15 to 30 minutes. Indeed, Red Cross instructors now tell their students that if they're alone when they need to give someone cardiopulmonary resuscitation and a phone is at hand, they should call 911 first, then start administering...
...urban first aid, for example, you're taught to splint a suspected sprain, strain or fracture as close as you can to the position you found it in. Under wilderness conditions, you need to be alert to the possibility that nerves or the blood supply in the affected limb may have been cut off, requiring you to pull gently and straighten it out before splinting to restore circulation and sensation. Otherwise, the accident victim could permanently lose use of that arm or leg. As a rule, if you're not seriously injured and you know your way back...