Word: limbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turkey with Red leaders, the political opportunity is obvious for Democrats to stake out a position from which they can, if things go sour, charge the G.O.P. with being "soft on Communism." Yet no Democratic presidential candidate in his prudence would ever get that far out on such a limb; Dwight Eisenhower's prestige is too great and, what is more, things might turn out far from sour. That being the case, the party position-staking last week was left to a Democrat who is not running for any office at all. And next year Democratic candidates...
...nicest ways to get awa> from it all is to go climb a tree-every child knows that. Seen from a stout limb and framed in shade, the world seems a safer and more interesting place. But sooner or later the child must come down to earth. In this novel, the hero never comes down, and neither does Italian Author Italo Calvino. He seems to have had great fun dreaming up his fantasy; all he asks of the reader is a suspended intelligence and a taste for the bizarre...
...heavily forested that he can travel for miles swinging from tree to tree like an 18th century Tarzan. He builds tree houses and shoots game. He climbs down to a low branch to milk a complacent goat, trains a hen to lay in a convenient place. A limb overhanging a swift-running stream makes an excellent toilet...
...anticlericalism, e.g., confiscation of huge church estates, enactment of some of South America's first divorce laws. He built the buckety Quito-Guayaquil railroad. Then in 1912, Eloy Alfaro overreached for a third term, and the army handed him over to the fickle mob, which tore him limb from limb...
...Limb. In Cologne, Germany, arrested for sitting in a tree in the rain and peeking at a girl through her window, a man explained that he intended to propose to someone but wanted to be sure she was a good housekeeper...