Word: limbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Limb. In Chicago, after making personal appearances among 1,150 exhibits stretched over five miles of the Navy Pier, Ruth Elaine Conte abdicated as queen of the National Restaurant Association's convention, handed her crown over to N.R.A. President Marion Isbell, bawled, "That's enough; my feet hurt...
...family name was Bjorkegren, the first syllable of which is pronounced Burke. Its Swedish meaning is "limb of a birch tree," and it traces to Burke's great-grandfather, who worked for the Swedish Ministry of Forestry...
Speaking to a rapt covey of newshens, Pollster George Gallup, mindful of the time when his prophecies all but installed Thomas E. Dewey in the White House, made it clear that he will crawl out on no limb this election year. Announced hypercautious Dr. Gallup: "As I look into this crystal ball, I see a light flashing and hear a small voice saying, 'Remember 1948.' It will be my intention in this campaign simply to use the magic words, 'Let others make the predictions...
...made the trip to Georgia showed that 16 out of 20 believed that Ike would run. (Six weeks ago, at Key West, eleven out of 14 thought that he would not run.) In Washington, House Minority Leader Joe Martin was ready to go all the way out on the limb, flatly predicted: "Come March 1, the President will say, 'I shall accept the nomination...
...unreconstructed composer of gutter nihilisms. In one ditty. Singer Lenya is a bitter, jilted girl who snarls at her indifferent lover: "Take that pipe out of your kisser, you dog!" In the chilling Berlin Requiem she sings the horrifying vision of a drowned girl whose body is decomposing, limb by limb, as "God gradually forgot her, first her face, then her hands and finally her hair." Funniest for U.S. listeners is a moaning ragtime song written in a German's conception of American English...