Word: limbs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late as the 1950s some doctors and first-aid manuals were recommending massage of a frostbitten limb with snow or ice, a treatment that traces back to Baron Larrey, Napoleon's chief surgeon on the Grand Army's disastrous retreat from Moscow during the bitter winter of 1812-13. Larrey believed such therapy reduced the likelihood of infection. But the experience of American doctors during the Korean War and more recently in Alaska has shown that the best treatment for frostbite is not more cold but rapid warming...
...ambles in to the rinky-tink beat of Joseph Lamb's rag, Bohemia, a little guy in a shiny satin shirt and crushed-velvet breeches. Mikhail Baryshnikov, loose of limb with plenty of shoulder action, adjusts his bowler hat. From the wings a woman's leg appears, and then the rest of Marianna Tcherkassky. The two link up, meet Martine van Hamel, and ease downstage in a vaudeville shuffle. Stop. Resume action, triple speed...
...abortion and counseling can be done. Its basic Blue-Cross/Blue-Shield plan does not cover abortions unless there are "therapeutic" reasons (Bisbee said "most women who come here will not be covered under these reasons"), meaning if there is a "threat by physical or mental illness to life or limb...
...Like Greene, Moore writes both serious works of art and prinking entertainments. The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne and Catholics placed Moore in the front rank of contemporary writers. Whatever its intentions, the Collection ends as a Great Victorian Legpull. And pace Greene, this time it is the short limb that is being pulled...
...disengagement from Viet Nam was inevitable, but the manner in which we did it was embarrassing. I certainly thought we owed it to the Vietnamese to show a little more class than that. We led them down the primrose path and left them hanging on the end of the limb. Then we sawed it off. So why should we be surprised when we see them fall? As for me, I did everything I could. I can face myself in the mirror. I don't know how many other Americans like Jane Fonda can say the same thing...