Word: numb
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...don’t know what weather HEPS will bring, so this was a great chance to compete in the worse conditions,” women’s co-captain Ashley Furst said. “Our feet were frozen and numb and our hands were freezing...
...psychological nuance and journalistic detail. "They made it sound like I was out there with a notepad and a pith helmet," he says. But he started to doubt his own virtues. Sometimes he would take a kid from the projects into Manhattan, where the boy would be dazzled into numb silence by the place. "After a while I thought of myself as a big Thanksgiving float," he says. "The wind shifts, it hits a light pole, something falls off and kills three people down below. Then the wind shifts again, and the float just drifts off down the street." Those...
...corrosive effects on local law enforcement agencies, already stretched well beyond their budgets, as officers were forced by the heightened alert level to work even longer hours. FBI officials were also concerned that a protracted alert could erode the color-coded system's credibility with the public, leaving people numb to true danger signs...
Among the biggest pro-pot players, medical marijuana was actually kind of a ruse. Sure, there are sick people who really feel they need marijuana to numb pain, relieve the eye pressure of glaucoma, calm muscle spasms or get the munchies to help with AIDS wasting (see following story). But they are not the people who put the debate into high gear. A few years ago, the Drug Policy Alliance--an organization founded by billionaire philanthropist Soros, who wants to legalize marijuana and reform drug laws by replacing jail time with rehab--decided it would fund only those initiatives that...
...rendering them always in the same red outlines, in the same positions, with the same plastered-on false smiles, Rees channels the numb fear of mass denial. In doing so he evokes a nation of terrified people eagerly complying with any policy that could potentially obliterate the original source of their fear. But their dialogue is anything but the party line...