Word: deadened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what he found with mingled love and horror. When he died in 1922, he left a mountain of legends about himself-of the fabulous invalid who nearly always wrote in bed, with his manuscript propped on his knees; of the Paris room whose walls were lined with cork to deaden all sound of the world outside. Besides his monumental Remembrance of Things...
According to students of the subject, there are three kinds of painkiller. Some deaden tissue locally. When the dentist shoots procaine, for instance, into gums, it painproofs that area only and keeps it from flashing pain messages toward the brain...
...greatest agony" (the book was written during the war). "But the more cruel the world, the greater the temptation to escape it in thought, and it is disquieting to consider the intensity of optimism which, failing the proper catharsis of constructive action, may shortly be necessary to deaden the pains that are now scarring the memory of the race...
...futures list for the 80th Congress are these propositions: ¶Legislation which will eliminate economic crises, but without socialistic controls which "deaden free enterprise." ¶ A housing bill. He is co-author with Democrats Wagner and Ellender of a bill to provide $88 million in Federal funds for 500,000 units of low-rent public housing...
...band is fine, but just how you'll get back to Cambridge is your worry (I hitched, but don't tell the War Department.) Art Hodes, an you probably know unless you're reading this just to deaden that wait on the chowline or because you're one of my room mates (noidle remark; at the last census in D-41 McKinlock we were ten, not including a mysterious joker who floats in now and then to read PM and The New Republic), well, Art Hodes is one of the old Chicago gang that learned its jazz from the great...