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...could do was go numb. . . . Now I'm all set to educate the realists. This wonderful compiler has put it all down so Mrs. Hinton, housewife, antiquer and garden-weeder not only can see this gigantic problem of limit less resources in peacetime, but can anticipate and relish the coming solution. He is wonderful. Does he have a bay window...
...gone on for more than four years now, with its incessant news of legalized wholesale slaughter. These repeated shocks of horror eventually numb the mind. . . . Murder at retail, however . . . is something else again. Anybody can comprehend a crime of passion or cupidity or both, and most people are fascinated. . . . We don't see what anybody can do about it. Or should...
...year in five and a half seasons until a line drive in the 1937 All-Star game broke his toe. Diz rested for a fortnight, then tried out a new delivery that favored the bad foot. "There was a loud crack in my shoulder, and my arm went numb down to my fingers. . . . Ol' Diz's great arm was never goin' to be the same...
...Chapman and Keats went on tour with a pair of performing bears. Keats refused to believe they were tame and harmless, but consented to feed them. Chapman found Keats injecting a local anesthetic into the bears. They were numb but upright. "Chapman flew into a feverish temper and demanded the reason for this brutal and cynical outrage. 'There's safety in numb bears,' Keats said...
...over corrugated tundra in three days. Scouts use Trapper Nelson packs instead of the Army's steel-framed rucksack, shun Army K and C rations for dehydrated beef and other foods which weigh less. A Scout's greatest fear is that he may fall through the ice, numb his hands so that he is unable to strike a match...