Word: numb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made blisters. At night I would pick the grains of sand out of the blisters with a matchstick. I'd start out walking in the morning and it was like walking on red-hot marbles. For the first half-hour it was torture. Then my feet would get numb and it was all right...
...were, how crumpled their uniforms! They did not seem proud to be French citizens; there was a hangdog look about them . . . The people are poorly dressed; the women have colorless, frizzy hair, the men grey faces, and they walk as if defeated . . . The weather was grey. Paris seemed numb ... I would have to relearn France and get back into my own skin...
...idea of the tour was to read and discuss the books right on their authors' old stamping grounds-or as close to the grounds as possible. By last week everyone was feeling a trifle numb. "It's been very interesting, of course," said one traveler. "Like when we were in Florence we studied Dante and somebody else. I forget exactly...
...broken, Joe?" The player's leg is numb. "When will it start to throb...
London's Covent Garden exploded with applause at the first appearance in six months of Britain's Prima Ballerina Margot Fonteyn. An attack of diphtheria last October had left strange complications. Her legs and arms were numb and nerveless. In January she said: "At the moment, I can't do even the easiest dance." By last week she felt ready to appear in the undemanding ballet Apparitions, and summoned her oldest friends to rally round. Instead of a few friendly faces, she drew a capacity audience of some 2,000 which gave Margot 14 curtain calls...