Word: limbs
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...Cross during World War I. "Everything I know about myself had to leave," says the exuberant Bullock of playing the reserved Agnes von Kurowsky. "That's why I did it." Plus she learned all that nurses knew in 1918. "Everything from making an egg cream to amputating a limb," she says...
...would be nice to go on a vacation where I didn't have to worry about being ripped limb from limb by some big ursine slob. But there it is, at any trailhead worth carting your trail mix up to--the National Park Service sign saying CAUTION, YOU ARE ENTERING BEAR COUNTRY. Abandon greasy foods and perfumes, all ye who enter here! Or: Bye-bye, rule of law; hello, natural selection...
DIED. MELVIN BELLI, 88, flamboyant personal-injury and defense attorney dubbed the King of Torts; in San Francisco. Belli pioneered the use of "demonstrative evidence" (unveiling an artificial limb, baring a client's disfigurement) to win over juries, and took on a variety of mass-disaster cases, as well as representing televangelist Jim Bakker and Jack Ruby, the killer of Lee Harvey Oswald...
...achievements of America's corporations doesn't pass the snicker test. "Chalk it up to election-year politics," says Martin Regalia, vice president for economic policy for the Chamber of Commerce. "They have to have a conference to make up for going so far out on a limb to criticize the business community...
...evidence has shown one thing: cluttered dorm rooms are firetraps, and menorahs present a clear and present danger to life and limb. Just like freedom of speech, religious freedom must step aside when obvious threats to personal safety arise...