Word: limbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Between the Lines. With this report, Heath got himself way out on a limb which critical convention colleagues were anxious to saw off. Snapped Cleveland's Dr. Douglas D. Bond: "No group of psychiatrists need be told that the easiest people to deceive are ourselves." In this atmosphere. Heath was careful not to disclose anything about the beef extract's effects, if any. on the mental symptoms of human patients. One trouble, he conceded, was that his extracts did not always turn out the same, might have varying potency, or none. But something could be 'read between...
...eyebrows to raise the curve"). No one wants clown shots or old-new gimmicks, and we should be grateful that 321 avoids them. But the undergraduate and even Mother, would like a little humor. And 321 provides none, even when it is there to be shaken ripe from the limb. The Lamont Dupont feat, handled with some sprightliness by Life, was ground to a fine, dry powder, and in only a few sentences at that. This, however, is only the most notorious example of the book's sterility. For the editors of 321 there seemed to be no mean between...
...with loyalty risks in what became known as the Eisenhower "numbers game." He got into even worse trouble when, for one of the few times in his life, he moved so far out of the back room that he found himself on the end of a very long limb. At a Chicago luncheon, Brownell made a speech identifying the Treasury Department's onetime Director of Monetary Research Harry Dexter White as a Soviet agent, and strongly implying that Harry Truman was disloyal. Brownell now says: "I felt the matter was so serious that it had to be brought...
...Jews is not to compromise in matters of faith and observance. "Compromise is dangerous because it sickens both the body and the soul . . . One must do everything, but at the same time we welcome the doing of even a part. If all we can do is to save one limb, we save that. Then we worry about saving another. A man may say, 'I would like to be whole, but I can't. My evil impulse prevents me, or I have to make a living, or I don't have the time' . . . The great fault...
...course, some people are naturally conservative; they prefer to avoid taking a position wherever possible. They just don't believe in going out on a limb, when they don't even know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be partially junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...