Word: numb
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...taking care of their own by funneling more than $850 million to the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks. Two months ago, Walter Gombe, 37, lost his job as a data-control officer. Despite five back operations since the bombing, the lower part of his body is still numb, and he needs a costly kidney operation. "When the drugs run out," he asks, "what do I do?" Some 3,000 of his countrymen with similar sentiments have sued the U.S. government, for $250,000 to $1.5 million each, claiming that the State Department negligently ignored warnings about the embassy assaults...
...first week, everyone was sort of numb, and that was the ‘death of irony’ phase. But the use of the word irony is sort of incorrect. People were referring to aloof smugness, detachment, and it was hard to be detached from everything that was going on,” Colton says. “The week the attacks happened, we didn’t yet know what was funny. Nothing was really funny.” So the two humorists posted a letter to their readers saying that comedy was postponed, but it would return...
...have heard of a whole lot of people showing up in emergency rooms claiming that their wife or husband is missing in the towers, only to have it turn out that the person was never married, and has not lost anyone. My fellow trainees and I are exhausted, numb, bewildered. We are doing too much. We are not doing enough. I have a speech that I give - It?s okay to feel this way (insert symptom X: Sleepless, anxious, jumpy, won?t ride the subway, wants to move to Canada, convinced there will be a nuclear bomb, guilty about having...
Favorite Song: “Comfortably Numb,” by Pink Floyd
...Babies like Fiona need all the help they can get: only one in three survive. The six-month-old arrived only a few days earlier and sits pressed at the back of her cage, staring blankly out, her huge eyes numb with fear, clutching herself tightly and rocking back and forth ceaselessly. But with luck and good mothering, she too will be transformed within weeks or months into one of the scampering, mischievous brats swinging effortlessly through the air in the playground next door...