Word: numb
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...part, Ginny was going through the motions but nothing more. Friends and relatives, who had colonized the house, were propping her up like a marionette and pulling her through the paperwork mill. "I was numb, hollow," says Ginny upon several months' reflection. "I was just completely terrified, terrified of living the rest of my life without George--still am, but in the beginning I couldn't do a thing...
STEP 2: RECOGNIZE THE SYMPTOMS. Dry eyes, back aches, wrist cramping and numb fingers are signs that you are spending too much time at the keyboard...
...Because images operate on an emotional level, no one can predict their effect - and that is scary. No one knows if the Pearl video will do more to rally the terrorists or us, whether seeing bodies falling from the towers will numb people or combat complacency. The Pearl video is the Zapruder film of terrorism, footage that will rightly carry a taboo and not many will want to see. But it would be hubris to decide that because I wish I had never seen it, you never should - that I can?t trust you to watch it for the right...
...STEP 2: RECOGNIZE THE SYMPTOMS. Dry eyes, back aches, wrist cramping and numb fingers are signs that you are spending too much time at the keyboard...
...Since you don’t get treated by the trainers, you learn fast to deal with your own problems,” Mazza says. “It’s not unusual that guys pop four or five Advil before games to numb themselves for a while. After that, we just basically play on adrenaline...