Word: limbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moscow Saved. In the deep, bombproof shelters of the Kremlin, the dictator faced up to a frightened group of party sycophants. Outside in the streets of Moscow the angry, dismayed mob was ready to tear them limb from limb. Stalin was forced to yield all military decisions to the man with the highest professional qualifications in Russia: Georgy Zhukov. Zhukov's first decision: save Moscow...
...when he was five the wordless, spastic child grabbed a piece of chalk in the toes of his left foot, and showed that he had control of one limb. Between confinements, his indomitable mother taught him the alphabet. When he was seven Christy spelled out MOTHER. It was one of the proudest moments that Christy Brown, now 22, reports in his autobiography, My Left Foot (Simon & Schuster; $3). From that moment, though unschooled, Christy went on to painting and writing stories, always with his left foot. Relying on that same limb, he had himself thrown into a canal...
...increasing stream of skilled and productive workers. One great manpower pool that many businessmen have neglected is handicapped workers. In 1954, according to the American Federation of the Physically Handicapped, there were 7,000,000 Americans of working age who were severely handicapped-by blindness, the loss of a limb, by tuberculosis, epilepsy, or some other crippling disease. Of the total, only a relative few were permanently employed. But the estimates are that some 4,000,000 can eventually be rehabilitated and gainfully employed. Not only would rehabilitation lead them into happier lives, but with the increasing complexity of such...
...Test for a Pigeon. A young farmer who must make his way should select a "Type I" wife. She should be "sound of wind and limb," should not have more than a high-school education, and "should not be disturbed by muddy boots in her kitchen, nor by the dogs sleeping under the stove . . . nor the continuous parade of newborn pigs and lambs in bushel baskets by the kitchen stove. She should be farm-reared . . . It takes a woman a long time to learn how to get her weight properly under a bale...
...forerunner of retreat. This is understandable: U.S. ambiguity about its plans in Korea was followed by stalemate and armistice, in Indo-China by retreat, and in the Tachens by evacuation. Today, even a hint of further retreat seriously demoralizes those Asian political leaders who have crawled out on a limb to support U.S. policy. For example, in the politically sensitive Philippines, President Ramon Magsaysay last month summoned all his prestige to fight through the Philippine Senate a resolution backing the U.S. stand on Formosa. Magsaysay's supporters, erroneously interpreted the U.S. position as insuring defense of Quemoy and Matsu...