Word: limbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there week after week-with that silver plate in his head." So many others warmly congratulated him for his triumph over facial paralysis, a twisted spine and other dire but imaginary ills that Sullivan has about given up protesting that he has always been sound of wind and limb...
...morning last week a short, gnomelike figure dressed in a cream-colored coat, grey flannels and sneakers darted through the dew-drenched shrubbery of Paris' Bois de Boulogne. He paused to stare reflectively at a lush hydrangea bush, then hurried on to pick up a dead limb, a handful of dead leaves and a piece of old oak bark. To startled park gardeners an official explained: "That gentleman is a famous Japanese flower arranger, Monsieur Sofu...
Smoking certainly cuts down the blood flow in the capillaries of the extremities-the familiar effect of cooling the fingers. This same phenomenon can be deadly in victims of thromboangiitis obliterans (or Buerger's disease, from which the late King George VI suffered). Their limb-tip blood flow is already reduced so that they are subject to gangrene, and it is in this connection that the strength of the smoking habit is most clearly seen. Writes Cornell University's Professor Irving S. Wright: "We have seen patients . . . continue to smoke even though they suffered agonizing pain from gangrene...
...often proves the case in duels, seconds are of inestimable value in preserving life and limb of the combatants. Neither Bullard nor Wallack desired to witness bloodshed the next morning, so they conceived the unsporting idea of loading the pistols with powder only. This plan they communicated to the ferocious Mr. Foster, who on reflection had lost much of his enthusiasm for the contest. Foster therefore heartily agreed to the boax, and we may suppose that he spent a much more restful night than did his unenlightened opponent...
...years later, when he set up a clinic in Dublin, Dr. Collis looked Christy up. Experts decided that at 18 Christy could be taught to speak intelligibly, to walk a little and to use his hands-provided that he would swear off using his left foot. This versatile limb was helping to keep him a cripple. When younger, Christy had got around in a gocart; later he often traveled on his brother's shoulders...