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“Where’s the rest of me?” was Reagan’s most famous line, uttered in a film in which he wakes up to find that a sadistic doctor has amputated his legs.

From The New Yorker • May 13, 2019

Before the war China's National Health Administration could boast of tiny gains toward improved public health, but war has amputated many of China's health facilities.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Naval Air Service is inadequate; yet the Director of the Budget has amputated 60% of our requests for next year.

From Time Magazine Archive

Modern skepticism has amputated God from the heart; but there is still a twinge where the arteries were sewn up.

From Where the Blue Begins by Morley, Christopher