Word: limbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your loins and a super-voluptuous flame aglow in your subtle spine (oh, how you have to cringe and hide!), in order to discern at once, by ineffable signs-the slightly feline outline of a cheekbone, the slenderness of a downy limb, and other indices which despair and shame and tears of tenderness forbid me to tabulate-the deadly little demon among the wholesome children; she stands unrecognized by them and unconscious herself of her fantastic power...
...Limb. In Roehampton, England, when one-legged Convict Glyn Peters was taken to a hospital and fitted with an artificial leg, he followed the doctor's suggestion that he walk around and try it, sauntered right out of the building and escaped...
Nasser's Middle East News Agency gleefully described the assassination of Crown Prince Abdul Illah: "The people dragged Abdul Illah's body into the street like that of a dog and tore it limb from limb." Then the mobs burned the body. It was Abdul Illah who ruled Iraq as regent until Feisal became King...
Automatic Transgression. In Columbus, Ohio, Raymond Pickens borrowed a 1952 Chevrolet from a used car dealer to try it out, drove it to a vacant lot, where police found him lifting out the motor with a chain hoist he had secured to a tree limb...
...College of West Virginia wrote me that he approved of Truth First discussion groups in religion but that the discussion should never question doctrine or belief. Reminds us of the cautious mother who readily gave her daughter permission to go swimming, then added "hang your clothes on a hickory limb but don't go near the water...