Word: numb
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...never want to hear the words that come with such a phone call. "We are all wiped out." But they came, and we went numb. We lost, on paper, $1.2 million. My wife's family's combined losses are close to $30 million. We're talking old ladies and men, lawyers, children with Madoff trusts, students in college and an array of others who thought they had the world beat - and they did, at least for a time...
...Independent French terrorism expert Roland Jacquard is a little more skeptical of the report, however, at least as far as it claimed some of the fighters had used narcotics to numb themselves to pain as death approached. Though he understands the strategic logic of assailants using stimulants to overcome fatigue as their attack wears on - conventional armies, including the U.S. military, have used stimulants to counter combat fatigue - he does not believe the stern Salafist prohibition of soporifics would be ignored as the end loomed...
...serene and undisturbed, allowing him to leave behind the “world full of confusion.” Yet there is an underlying sense of desolation and remoteness in the gloomy fog and stark trees. You can only tune out for so long until you become lost and numb. Directed by Ashcroft himself, the video is neither innovative nor particularly exciting, but its minimalism fits the song’s ideas about appreciating the simple and escaping society’s overwhelming influence. —Ali R. Leskowitz
...with this picture.Perhaps it was the heavy, unwieldy sign that concealed more than half of my body, or the fact that I was teetering on a curb and frantically waving at oncoming traffic. Perhaps it was the fact that my arms had begun to feel like two throbbing, slightly numb vestigial appendages, or that I was beginning to see spots in the heat. Mostly, it was one persistent little number that had been pulsing in my head for the past 240 excruciating minutes:$4.25.That, minus taxes, was how much I was being paid for each hour of increasing delirium...
...police force for the badge and the gun. "Most people respect a badge. Everybody respects a gun." After a few suspicious homicides, both men undergo a brief psychiatric evaluation. When the shrink asks, "How do you feel when innocent people get killed?" Rooster replies, "You know, I sorta got numb to it." He's been around too long for remorse; that just slows down the trigger-finger reflex, gets...