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...searching party by a hair. A Chinese contraband runner loaded them at midnight into his small sampan, nosed upstream through sleet and snow for Free China. Japanese troops lined the right bank, Chinese the left; detection meant being riddled by both sides. At journey's end, too numb to move, they were carried through ice water and mud by the cheerful, barelegged boatman, given a royal welcome by Chinese villagers who had been raided and pillaged by Japanese for years...
...lights up fireflies, and also lights up the bacteria which often make ponds and seawater phosphorescent. Working with flaskfuls of luminous bacteria, the researchers found that alcohol and anesthetics, when added in small amounts to the bacterial solutions, dimmed their luminescence. Greater amounts extinguished the glow altogether. (Conclusions: narcotics numb consciousness by affecting enzyme reactions, not-as hitherto suspected-by acting as fat solvents; human consciousness, which these drugs affect, is at least partly a chemical process sustained by enzymes.) The sulfa drugs acted like one group of narcotics on the enzyme, putting activities to sleep. (Conclusion: the sulfa drugs...
...Another, told that his hand was numb, allowed his palm to be fingered by a match flame...
...German people had won all the war they wanted to win. But if they tried to overthrow the dictatorship, they would lose the war. And if they won the war under the dictatorship, they could not then get rid of it. In this dilemma, the German people were numb. And now they would apparently have to fight the U.S., too. They still had one hope about the war: to live through...
From time to time the lights of other ships passed, but nobody heard the hoarse hails of the men in the schooner's rigging. After a while one man lost his numb hold, dropped into the black water. Another followed-another, and another. When a man dropped, the others heard a brief thrashing in the water, then silence. One who let go was 60-year-old Mandea LeBlanc, who had hoped this would be his last voyage to the banks. Shortly afterward, Captain Wilson followed...