Word: numb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Treatment of a spinal patient begins with absolute rest for the back, usually in a plaster cast. Because the paralyzed legs are completely numb, patients commonly develop bed sores. The Newton D. Baker Hospital developed a quick cure: skin grafts. No less troublesome is the problem of getting patients to eat; the spinal injury destroys their appetite. The hospital spurs them on by serving especially tasty and attractive food...
...frantically scoured the countryside, advertised in the papers, even appealed to the local conjuror (a frightening man who wore a full-bottomed black wig backwards, peering through its curls like a sheepdog). Then, on the evening of Jan. 29, Bet appeared at her mother's door, half-naked, numb with cold, her face swollen and bloated, her hair matted. The neighbors listened aghast to her pitiful tale. "I have been almost starved to death," she quavered. "I have had nothing but bread and water since New Year...
Three Stages of Emotion. For the democratic world, Stage I was characterized first by the numb, sinking feeling of shock when a new Nazi invasion began; then by a few days of false hope that the campaign would go well, then by the despairing finality of another decisive defeat, finally by the return to a fool's paradise (e.g., the Phony War) until another Nazi invasion began...
...early days of last week Torgau was almost deserted. Marshal Konev's artillery had battered it from across the Elbe. Only a few Germans, too numb to care what happened, searched rubbish piles for scraps of food and hunted cigaret butts among the cobblestones. The rest had joined a panicky throng swarming westward toward the U.S. lines...
From the camp at Buchenwald TIME Correspondent Percy Knauth reported: In Buchenwald today I saw death reduced to such a state of ordinariness that it just left me numb and feeling nothing, not even sickness at my stomach...