Word: limbs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bondage to Moscow. "To the extent that the Soviets are nervous about his dialogue with the U.S.," said an American official last week, "he is telling them to go to hell, that he is running his own government. But he has put himself out on a limb by expressing faith in American advice that the only way to recover the lost territories is to negotiate. If that doesn't work, his enemies will hold him to his words...
...Kent State killings made plain last year, the state governments have perhaps more extraordinary power over life and limb. Thirty-five state constitutions explicitly authorize the governor, at his own discretion, to call out the National Guard to suppress insurrection. They define this discretion broadly enough to cover the use of the Guard in any public disorder attended by a crisis in local law enforcement...
...Restaurants and department stores do not seem crowded enough. It is often the little signs like these that make consumers feel insecure and hesitant about climbing out on a financial limb...
Despite their ordinary appearance, the spider's bite produces a necrotic lesion, in which the skin and flesh in the area around the wound dies, decays, and falls away. These lesions, if not treated can result in loss ofa limb-or, in rare cases, death...
Reached by phone last night. Princeton coach Larry Ellis said he felt the meet would be close. "I'm not going to climb out on the limb." he said...