Word: limb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people. So nobody could complain about particular cops, they all removed their badges and any other source of identification. The most amazing part of the morning was that nobody got killed. Although nobody fought the cops in the trees, everybody held on. But if you're perched on a limb some 50 feet up, it's hard to keep from falling when a cop inches around the tree trunk and suddenly grabs one of your feet, out from under you, while another one yanks one of your hands off of the limb above you. They even sawed off one limb...
...doubt that the immediate cause is damage to cells in a little-known part of the brain. Because of this damage, the victims of parkinsonism suffer from many symptoms that become progressively more severe and disabling: an involuntary tremor or pill-rolling movement of the fingers, rigidity of major limb muscles, hasty gait, slurred speech and difficulty in moving and turning. A parkinsonian patient falls frequently, and he develops a forward-leaning posture to protect him against toppling over backward...
...production of a play, particularly a play by Shakespeare, goes out on a limb. It offers one interpretation of an entity capable of an infinity of interpretations. T. S. Eliot thought this was bad, because it forced him to observe a rendering which was very likely different from his own. But it is good, too, because it brings the play closer to the audience and forces them, even if by its aberrations, to consider nuances and ramifications which often do not arise spontaneously from the text. Having mentioned this, one can consider the play...
...course, some people are naturally conservative: they prefer to 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 junked and replaced with the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around a point...
Most administrators are determined to brook no violence. "We are making it clear this year," says University of Houston President Philip Hoffman, "that we are not going to hesitate to bring in the police or the district attorney whenever violence threatens property or life and limb." The University of Miami established a new security office last May; its first director, Fred Doerner Jr., a former legal counsel for the F.B.I., has since hired an assistant and 32 uniformed guards to patrol the campus round the clock...