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...steamed north, Harry Truman could ponder the problems. While he was away, food prices had spiraled up to such heights (see BUSINESS) that the people were numb from just talking about them. Ever since the abolition of OPA, Harry Truman had tried to solve the price-wage question by issuing statements-an expedient sometimes called "government by incantation." Soon Harry Truman might have to take some action-although with Congress away from Washington, there might be little he could accomplish...
...controls to keep the big ship's nose up. They were flying blind. The needle registering altitude bounced crazily between 200 and 800 feet. The plane was bobbing too fast for the instrument to keep up. . . . I tried to swallow but couldn't. . . . My legs were numb from the hips down, partly from the pressure of the safety belt cutting into my belly, but mostly from fear...
American historians often refer to 1816 as the "era of good feeling," with reference to President Monroe's bipartisan election. Harvard chronicles of that year substitute the word "numb," more frequently when the thermometer on August 29 registered 37 degrees...
Berliners, like all Europeans, know the face of sorrow by heart, and it generally leaves them numb. But this picture was haunting, and the gallerygoers kept returning to it. It was an autumn landscape in which two old people, their backs turned, appeared to be thinking things over (see cut); a painting which spoke the timeless reproach of the dead, of those who would never again turn to face their persecutors...
That was about all; the ward bosses and precinct captains beat their hands numb, and the band blared Lucky...