Word: limbs
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...There is a danger to life and limb in such excited mob action--for instance, the fireman who had his eye cut by a thrown light bulb Sunday...
Spears, a fine line-backers, was hampered by two knee injuries last fall but he underwent an operation in December and appears to be perfectly sound of limb now. He was still able to crack the Princeton defense at the end of the game, after playing both ways all afternoon...
Before an audience of 100,000 in Boston last week, Navy Secretary Francis Matthews put himself out on a long, shaky limb. He did it deliberately...
...course, some people are naturally conservative; they prefer to avoid taking a position wherever possible. They just don't believe in going out on a limb, when they don't even know the genus of the tree. For those people, the vague generality must be partially junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...
...gives an added margin of safety, the surgeons report after using it in 50 operations (in which they drew off an average of 3½ pints of blood). But, they warn, so drastic a procedure is not to be lightly used-and never used for an operation on a limb or in the abdomen, where bleeding is easily controlled. In fact, they say, it should only be used in "cases in which the surgeon encounters bleeding which would endanger life or function...