Word: numb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Berliners, like all Europeans, know the face of sorrow by heart, and it generally leaves them numb. But this picture was haunting, and the gallerygoers kept returning to it. It was an autumn landscape in which two old people, their backs turned, appeared to be thinking things over (see cut); a painting which spoke the timeless reproach of the dead, of those who would never again turn to face their persecutors...
That was about all; the ward bosses and precinct captains beat their hands numb, and the band blared Lucky...
Several agreed with one gentleman who felt only that the Harvard man is just the 'average numb rider." Some had formed no opinion. "I just ride back and forth and don't pay much attention," stated James Galt of 74 Hardenway Street Roxbury...
...Anna Mae Bain, a miner's wife, stood weeping in the rain, repeating desperately: "Jim will come out alive. He simply has to do that for me and his children." Many other tired women stood in numb silence. The Kentucky Straight Creek Coal Co. had not seen fit to insure its men under Kentucky's workmen's compensation laws, and there would be no benefits for the widows...
...tenebrous tones Churchill surveyed the Spartan boundaries of Labor's promised land. "All enterprise, all initiative is baffled and fettered. The queues are longer, the faces are longer, the shelves are barer, the shops are emptier. . . . Whole spheres of beneficial activity are frozen rigid and numb because this Government had to prove their Socialist orthodoxy...