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1 story matching limbo
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:limb, limber, limburg, lima, lime, limp
- The Bureaucracy of Abandonment
Olympia’s land office is paralyzed by backlogs, leaving settlers and their titles in legal limbo while officials in Washington, D.C. ignore local pleas for help.