Word: limbs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Limb. In the fast-changing political climate, Adlai Stevenson was the Democrat who seemed farthest out on a limb. The first to attack the Administration for its international blunders (he spoke out even before Ike had returned from the exploded summit), Stevenson had followed through with the harshest, most persistent criticism. "The effectiveness for leadership of the present Administration in Washington has been impaired if not destroyed," he told the Textile Workers convention in Chicago. "We must make it plain that peace and disarmament are the paramount goals of our foreign policy . . . Why was total disarmament proposed last fall...
...once by a horse's hoof. Cowboy Kelly hated the 20th century. He went to his last movie in 1929. He would fall dumb when confronted with a telephone, flatly refused to ride in airplanes, insisted that all substitutes for the horse were a danger to life and limb ("They will kill you off! They go like hell, poppity-pop and hellity-scoop"). Like Pieter Brueghel the Elder, whom he admired so much, he filled his canvases with chipper little figures going about their daily chores, drinking their beer, sparking, preparing their feasts-all under a bright...
...average, but Gene takes no comfort from his crumb of superiority. His friend's perfection galls him. Worse, Phineas has begun to prod Gene to follow him in nonsensical feats of daring. The athlete fearlessly climbs a tall tree by a riverbank, walks the length of a limb, and leaps far out into safe, deep water. Gene queasily repeats the stunt, and bitterly resents the compulsion that makes him do it. Soon Gene comes to suspect that everything Phineas does is calculated to humiliate...
Innocence. One night Phineas has a new idea-a double leap. The boys climb the tree. Phineas balances jauntily on the limb, and Gene grimly clutches the trunk.. Abruptly the athlete falls. In the minutes that follow, as Phineas is carried to the infirmary with a shattered leg, ¶Gene tries to shut away a terrifying fact: in an instant of hatred, he had jounced the limb his friend was standing...
Cardinal tenet in Dr. Hellebrandt's theory is that if one set of muscles cannot be effectively exercised (as after paralytic polio, when one limb or one side of the body may be affected), it can nevertheless be built up by exercising healthy muscles near by, or the corresponding set on the opposite side. Significant evidence: one subject exercised her left forearm flexor, got a 76% increase in its strength, plus a 20% boost in its antagonist extensor muscle, and an amazing 130% in the unexercised right flexor and 50% in the right extensor...