Word: numb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...write, the winter owl is hooting; the grass is numb and cold. No. The light and warmth must come from within now, more than ever before. . . . There are but few who have saved their matches. And they are poets, painters, writers, not men of science...
...year-old salesman, was convinced that he was a pretty sick man. For one thing, he had become obsessed by the fear of death. Sometimes he imagined that he was losing his mind. He complained of a continuous ringing in his left ear, and his nose felt numb. He had no appetite, couldn't sleep, and occasionally felt as if he were about to faint...
...steamed north, Harry Truman could ponder the problems. While he was away, food prices had spiraled up to such heights (see BUSINESS) that the people were numb from just talking about them. Ever since the abolition of OPA, Harry Truman had tried to solve the price-wage question by issuing statements-an expedient sometimes called "government by incantation." Soon Harry Truman might have to take some action-although with Congress away from Washington, there might be little he could accomplish...
...controls to keep the big ship's nose up. They were flying blind. The needle registering altitude bounced crazily between 200 and 800 feet. The plane was bobbing too fast for the instrument to keep up. . . . I tried to swallow but couldn't. . . . My legs were numb from the hips down, partly from the pressure of the safety belt cutting into my belly, but mostly from fear...
American historians often refer to 1816 as the "era of good feeling," with reference to President Monroe's bipartisan election. Harvard chronicles of that year substitute the word "numb," more frequently when the thermometer on August 29 registered 37 degrees...