Word: numb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...toes too numb to step...
...Venturi finally won a big tournament-the U.S. Open-only to notice, a few months later, that his fingers were cold and the skin on his hands was peeling. In a game that depends almost entirely on feel, he could not even grip a club without his hands going numb. Doctors told him he had a circulatory ailment, advised him to give up golf. Venturi stubbornly refused to quit, and went out to defend his championship in the 1965 Open. He shot a dreadful 81-79, failed even to survive the second round cut. "How can I play?" he groaned...
...above. After some chitchat, Spiegel told the girl, "I'm going to count one, two, three, and your eyes will close and you'll go into a relaxed state," and she promptly went into a trance. Spiegel told her that her left forearm would become paralyzed and numb, arid that this condition would persist, even after she "came to," until he touched her elbow. When he ended the trance, the girl remained rooted before the receiver, her left arm numb and inert. After the usual wait for a hospital elevator, Spiegel walked into the laboratory and touched...
Legs ache? Do they pull, draw, get numb, tingle, prickle or feel as if ants were crawling on or under the skin? Relax, say a group of Mayo Clinic doctors who have studied the problem. There is probably nothing much wrong with the legs, and nothing to be done but submit to the urge to walk...
...obsolescence. It is not old enough to be nostalgic and not new enough to ring true. It asks playgoers to believe that a thirtyish Madison Avenue copywriter (Elizabeth Allen) is making her first gaga-eyed trip to Venice. And it compounds disbelief by imagining this girl to be psychologically numb-struck and emotionally unhinged upon discovering that her Italian vacation lover (Sergio Franchi) is married. She cries when the curtain goes up, and she cries when the curtain goes down, and there is plenty to be sad about in between...