Word: numb
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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BATON ROUGE, La.—Caroline E. Sloan ’07, horrified and numb, sat in a Little Rock, Ark. Doubletree Hotel room, scanning for her home in the flicker of the television screen...
...better to overwhelm? Walking out of “Palindromes,” it is hard to feel anything but numb. Solondz’s confrontational tactics produce a viewing experience unlike any other modern American director and it is not for everyone, but provocation is effective. Seeing the group of sickly and discarded children sing Christian pop as The Sunshine Singers is an experience that’s hard to forget. The central device, even when it fails, fails in interesting ways that are worth seeing...
Coke's decision brought forth a joyous response from soft-drink fans across the U.S. Said Karen Wilson, 28, who last June led a rally to protest the new Coke in San Francisco's Union Square: "At first I was numb. Then I was shocked. Then I started to yell and scream and run up and down." Archrival Pepsi professed to be just as delighted. Crowed Roger Enrico, president of Pepsi-Cola USA, about new Coke: "Clearly this is the Edsel of the '80s. This was a terrible mistake. Coke's got a lemon on its hands, and now they...
...countryside, especially if there is a bombing raid, as running for cover doesn't seem to be in the cards; but I say I don't want to change our plans, and everyone nods. In retrospect I wonder about my insistence at continuing despite the danger. Yes, I was numb with exhaustion and pain. But more to the point is my character: to turn away out of fear is just about unthinkable...
...captive boyars of the Politburo discussed literature, made policy, denounced colleagues and drank like fish to numb the fear of being led away at dawn. Often, Montefiore records, the dinner "sank to the level of a Neanderthal stag night." Stalin would get so drunk, Nikita Khrushchev remembered, that "he'd throw a tomato at you." Lavrenti Beria liked to slip tomatoes into the old Bolshevik Anastas Mikoyan's suit pockets and push Mikoyan against a wall so that they exploded...