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...infantryman going through rifle training may have good cause to complain that his left arm is so numb that he cannot move it, three medics at the U.S. Army Hospital at Camp Chaffee, Ark. reported. They saw scores of cases of "rifle-sling palsy," lasting as long as three weeks. The answer: loosen the sling every few minutes...
...extent, this is the error into which Lyon Phelps has fallen in his play The Gospel Witch. Even with cuts the production is too long, and in spite of the general excellence of the cast and the immediacy of a theatre-in-the-round presentation, the audience becomes almost numb during the last third of the play under an accumulated burden of moral complexity and hysteria...
...reaction among the Nationalists was one of gloomy foreboding, frustration, resentment. Said a Taipei lawyer: "When are people going to realize that appeasement of the Communists does not pay?" A broadcasting official: "I feel numb when I think of what is happening." A merchant in Hong Kong: "I just can't wait to see the day America will be 'liberated' by the Communists. They haven't been hit hard enough to see what's coming for everybody." Formosa's new troubles lent added weight to a psychological campaign which the Reds have been waging...
...remember for a long time the shots of patients on the lawns and benches of the hospital grounds. No faces were shown, but none needed to be, for there was overwhelming pathos in the pictures of patients' hands either plucking nervously at grass or gripped together in numb despair...
...made blisters. At night I would pick the grains of sand out of the blisters with a matchstick. I'd start out walking in the morning and it was like walking on red-hot marbles. For the first half-hour it was torture. Then my feet would get numb and it was all right...