Word: numb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...looking from Maria's angle it's peculiar she didn't join him. She's had an abortion Carter blackmailed her into. Kate, the only person she loves, is locked away. Maria and company are out of hope, and ambition is a lousy substitute for feelings. Maria's are numb, anyway. She goes on out of habit. When, finally, nothing matters, the B.Z.'s ask why stay alive. The Maria Wyeths answer...
...cope with any physical hardship. As she says of herself, "I do or die. I never cancel out." Certainly she has had plenty of excuses. In Yellowstone National Park she sat through a seemingly interminable speech by Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton, her hands gloveless and numb as sleet pelted the frozen, huddled crowd. In Billings, Mont., a 40-m.p.h. wind ripped down the WELCOME PAT banner at the airport, left the assembled Crow Indians shivering in their buckskins, and carried away Pat's words in spite of the microphone in front of her. She finished her speech...
Graham: "I'm just numb. After you try to get a City Manager which the people picked...you feel pretty depressed...
...major reason is that Europeans accept tax bites that would numb Americans. Though partly warped by differences in purchasing power, some comparisons are enlightening. An unmarried German worker earning $5,000 a year pays about $1,500 in income and social taxes; a single American earning about the same pays $800. An Englishman who is married, has two children and earns $12,000 a year has income taxes of $3,257. An American in the same category pays $2,154. Europeans also pay savage excise levies: 400 on a gallon of gasoline in Germany v. about...
Aldo Cassidy, the pram king, is 36 years old and nice, but numb. His wife, whose frigidity extends beyond sex, calls him by nursery names. One day he meets Shamus, a wild writer and roaring boy, and Helen, Shamus' fine, warm wife. He falls in love quite innocently with the pair of them. "Gradually, with the aid of a third bottle of wine and several names supplied by Shamus," le Carre writes, "Cassidy formed a picture of this wonderful band of brothers, this few: a non-flying Battle of Britain squadron captained by Keats and supported by Byron, Pushkin...