Word: limbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Limb. The governor's man is, like the Senator he succeeds, a newspaperman. He is Arthur Edson Blair Moody, Washington correspondent for the Detroit News. Long on familiar terms with both Washington's and Michigan's politics and politicians, 49-year-old Blair Moody is a pal of Soapy's, and on a fence-riding, independent newspaper, files Washington dispatches that are generally pro-labor and pro-Truman. When, during the Democrats' darkest days in 1948, he wrote a story touting Harry Truman's chances, his editor sent him a telegram which said: "That...
...evaporated into thin air. Last week Federal Judge F. Dickinson Letts threw it out of court and dismissed the jury. Said a blandly triumphant Earl Browder: "When demagogues fall out, honest men have a better opportunity to protect their liberties. Senator McCarthy, having driven the committee out on a limb, then proceeded...
...Long As I Breathe." Li Hun-jo, a layman, taken by Communist soldiers from his village with some 50 others, had the courage to answer yes when they asked if he was a Christian. He died hooked over the limb of a tree, his arms bound behind his back. Dutch Franciscan Father Leonides Bruns, 35, calmly removed his shoes and socks just before he was beaten to death. "I want to die just as my Lord was at His death," he told his torturers...
South Korea's Foreign Minister, Colonel Ben Limb, spoke. Discussion as to whether or not aggression had taken place in Korea, said Limb, seemed to his suffering people "a sickening mockery." If Korea fell, he asked, how long would it be before the Communist tide reached India? But India's Sir Benegal Rau did not hear the question; he spent the whole day in the lobby, surrounded by clusters of delegates, trying to make converts...
...Singer was making experiments on the nervous systems of newts. His chief interest was the nerves themselves, but in the course of the experiments he found out that if he damaged the nerves in the stump of an amputee newt, the newt failed to grow a new limb. Dr. Singer concluded that a hitherto neglected function of the nerves, the promotion and control of growth, was responsible. He decided to experiment further...