Word: numb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paralyzed when a bale of cotton falls on him. a young sharecropper broods over his wife working in his place. When the plantation owner refuses to advance them two pounds of fat-bacon until the end of the week, he broods over a plan to cut off his numb, useless legs and eat them...
...this day it was Spring. . . . us drew lewdly the murmurous minute clumsy smelloftheworld. We intricately alive, cleaving the luminous stammer of bodies (eagerly just not each other touch) seeking, some street which easily trickles a brittle fuss of fragile huge humanity. . . . Numb thoughts, kicking in the rivers of our blood, miss by how terrible inches speech-it made you a little dizzy did the world's smell...
...stripped, protected from the interested gaze of strollers who might happen to glance up at the House roof. Here he could surrender himself to the rays of the hot sun--allow these rays to suck the energy out of him until he was their debilitated slave, let them gradually numb-his senses until he felt that, by the consummation of some mysterious union he had become part of a dazzling realm of sunlight. By rolling over a slightly so that the burning tin touched his bare shoulder, sending a delightful spasm of pain through his core, he could see down...
Gradually his legs grew numb; they were the first to fall asleep. The numbness crept up his body, as ideas--all sick and diseased--ran little circles in his mind. He turned over on his left side; he doubled his legs; he moved his hands under the pillow. He rested. He turned back again on his right side; he crossed his legs; he extended them. His subconscious grasped him, and without recognition he was asleep...
...shot punctured two of the spheres. To the great relief of the rescue squad, Mingalone thereupon settled earthward. But at this point the floating cameraman, library scissors in his teeth, attempted to climb to a ring five feet above his head to saw free some more of the bags. Numb from the cold and soggy with rain, he tangled in the drooping anchor line, dropped his 12-lb. Bell & Howell camera. Loss of this ballast bobbed him upward and onward again...