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When Lawson stood up, his legs felt numb. He walked around in circles in the driving rain. His oaths were strange and thick. His upper teeth were bent in. He put his thumbs behind them and tried to push them straight. They broke off in his hands. He tried the lower teeth-they came off in his hands too. He stood in the rain with a handful of wet teeth and gum. Davenport came up to him, held Lawson's head back, said: "God damn! You're really bashed open. Your whole face is pushed...
...trench foot of World War I has reappeared in the present comparatively trenchless war. In World War I, soldiers got trench foot from sitting for hours with their feet in mud or cold water. The result was something like severe chilblains, something like a burn: circulation slowed; feet became numb, swollen and white; sudden warming sometimes brought blisters and ulcers. The worst cases got gangrene, which meant amputation. Today's trench foot has different sources...
Federal, state and local government payrolls added up to $13.5 billions last year, reported the National Industrial Conference Board last week. For the numb citizenry, who have had billions served up with breakfast every day, N.I.C.B. added a fact that gave its figure meaning: $13.5 billions is more than the entire payroll of all U.S. manufacturers...
...called Tunghsientien, a funnel through which refugees pour out of Honan. The refugees are stuffed into boxcars, flatcars, old coaches, layer upon layer deep. They are crowded on the roofs, children, old men & women clinging to any possible fingergrip as the trains hurtle along. Sometimes their fingers get so numb from the cold they fall off. The trains never halt...
...feet were gripped by fear and the mob. Patricia screamed: "Daddy, I can't stand it any more, I'm dying." Mr. Johnes tried to shove and make room for her, but he was unable to move an inch. Finally Mr. Johnes grew faint, his arms grew numb. Peter slipped down along Mr. Johnes's body until the dead boy's feet touched the floor...