Word: numb
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...soldiers joke darkly when they talk about what was left of Iskandariyah's mayor after he was blown up by a powerful roadside bomb called an EFP earlier this month. They have to. The details are so horrible that one either laughs or cries, or falls into that numb, silent stupor known to combat-hardened troops as the thousand-yard stare. They know EFPs are often aimed at them...
...Kamenetz: Many people start out numb to it. I now teach Bregmans method myself. A client told me she had dreamed she was chained in the basement and chatting with Bob Barker, the game show host, when her son came down the steps. She gives him a little kiss on his cheek and he leaves. The belly button was being chained up in your own basement, but she wasn't able to feel it. I said to her, "Gee, you were chained in your basement. When your son came downstairs, why didn...
...reels are as compelling. Warrant Officer Andrew Stockton relives the moment his arm was blown off by a grenade: "I reached up to my arm which I knew had been hit - it felt like I'd been hit with a sledgehammer. There was no massive pain, it was just numb. It felt like raw steak, to be honest. So I grabbed hold of the artery that runs underneath and just pinched it as hard as I could." The shrapnel removed from Stockton's arm is on display. It still contains pieces of his uniform...
...Standing in Dallas' Parkland Memorial Hospital on that unforgettable afternoon five years ago last week, Lady Bird Johnson, numb with sorrow and shock, turned to Mrs. John Connally and whispered: "Oh, Nellie, I feel that I am onstage for a part I never rehearsed." The First Lady learned her lines quickly. While her husband was al most constantly under fire, Lady Bird rarely became a target - except, perhaps, for cracks about her babyhood nickname and her Texas drawl. When the John sons had the Nixons to lunch at the White House just after the election, Pat Nixon told Lady...
...standing in for Jeremy R. Knowles as Knowles battles prostate cancer, addressed the Faculty for the first time yesterday since taking the position last Monday.“I probably should have spoken last week,” Pilbeam said, “but I was feeling a bit numb.”“I would give anything to not be standing here today,” he added.Also at yesterday’s meeting, five professors were honored with Harvard College Professorships, given to professors for recognition of undergraduate teaching: Friend Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures...