Word: numb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patients kept on a rigid regimen in a metabolic ward where everything they ate, drank and excreted was weighed and analyzed. Most were schizophrenics; some were psychoneurotics. Nearly all were depressed (at times suicidal), emotionally unresponsive, resentful, uninterested in sex and depersonalized (common complaints were "I am numb" and "Everything I do is automatic...
Elizabeth Stearns, as the master's wife, is excellently aged and numb, but probably a bit overdone, a bit zombiesque. James Spiegler, as Doctor Herdal, can be correct, but usually overuses his face muscles. Mark Mirsky, as an architect displaced by the master, nearly gets away with a very mannerized portrait of a dying man. Daniel Selznick, although occasionally over-petulant and childish, is generally most persuasive, and honest and successful. Jill Welden is right as a bookkeeper...
Then her right leg went numb. She became tense, and her hands lost their wave-setting skill. They shook so that she could not write legibly. She could not recall the names of regular customers, or what to charge them for a permanent. After four weeks she saw a doctor: he had no idea what to do, and for three days more she felt that she was "shaking all over inside"; she had backache, dizziness, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting. During a month in the hospital she developed some new symptoms : spells of rapid, pounding heartbeat, periods of frantic overbreathing. Gradually...
Both planes were part of an eight-plane (four from Loring and four from Castle) training mission known as Operation Quick Kick. When crew members landed at Friendship their main impression of their speed-for-distance endurance flight was that their bottoms were terribly numb. To the U.S. and the world it meant far more than that: it was a timely reminder that the B-52 can reach (with hydrogen-bomb payloads) and return from the Soviet Union at jet speed if the need should arise...
...variety of massage techniques made no noticeable differences in the performances of Springfield runners. Nor could the scientists find any evidence that warming up reduces the number of athletic injuries. Their deadpan conclusion: "No one will question the beneficial effect of warming up when limbs may be almost numb from cold, but there is a suspicion that the practice of warming up is frequently overdone...