Word: limbs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, some people are naturally conservative; they avoid taking a position whenever possible. They just don't believe in going out on a limb when they don't know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be partially junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...
Republicans were "bullying" and adversarial, while Democrats were "unwilling to go out on a limb," he said, adding that this combination made it hard for the committee to get much accomplished...
...seems to want to go out on a limb saying the Independents will regain their majority or the CCA will strengthen its majority. "It's really hard to make predictions, because this campaign has been largely about mechanics," Dixon says...
While Johnston herself says that Wheaton "went out on a limb," Wheaton maintains his decision to recruit Johnston was not a gamble...
Melville is most successful when she adheres to the commonplace. "Eat Labba and Drink Creek Water," for example, does not pretend to be anything more than nostalgia thinly disguised as fiction. Its wistful, reminiscent mood makes for good reading. "The Girl with the Celestial Limb," on the other hand, is a pretentious piece of pseu-do-surrealism that fails to make any impression on the reader...