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...little numb as he climbs into the front seat of the roller-coaster. He mutters something about a coward dying a thousand times and plasters a grin on his face. A bell rings, somebody screams, and the cars begin to move. Seven times or bust! Vacation...
...bleak Gull Rock, at the Shelburne harbor mouth, Alf Kenney had cause to marvel more. A monster tuna took his bait and for 4½ hr. he learned what it is like to be attached to an animated submarine. Back aching, arms numb, slim Alf Kenney stuck it out, killed his fish and when it tipped official scales at 864 lb., received congratulations on a new world record-13 lb. heavier than the North Sea tuna caught in 1933 by Mitchell Henry of England...
...sure in your own maturing mind who and what is good or bad. If you come with an open mind, you will accept with equanimity the eccentricities of the Harvard community. You will be prepared to sign your name in Memorial Hall on registration day until your arm is numb; you will keep solicitors at arm's length, especially those who try to sell you heat, or Anderson bridge, or a funny magazine...
...Paralyzed when a bale of cotton falls on him. a young sharecropper broods over his wife working in his place. When the plantation owner refuses to advance them two pounds of fat-bacon until the end of the week, he broods over a plan to cut off his numb, useless legs and eat them...
...this day it was Spring. . . . us drew lewdly the murmurous minute clumsy smelloftheworld. We intricately alive, cleaving the luminous stammer of bodies (eagerly just not each other touch) seeking, some street which easily trickles a brittle fuss of fragile huge humanity. . . . Numb thoughts, kicking in the rivers of our blood, miss by how terrible inches speech-it made you a little dizzy did the world's smell...