Word: numbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were marooned on islands in flooded areas. Brahmin priests performed propitiation ceremonies to the goddess of earth and the god of destruction. The quake had not yet spent itself. Hills were still disappearing and new hills were rising out of the laboring earth. Peasants in the area sat in numb and sleepless terror, watching tumblers half-filled with water for signs of further tremors. At the slightest trembling of the water, they would rush frantically to open ground. At week's end New Delhi heard that the death toll was close...
...Victor McDaniel, a cafeteria counterman. When McGinnis reached the union's roadblocks, he swung off the road and skittered across a field of rye. Rifles and shotguns roared from the embankment. "The noise was awful," said McGinnis. "We heard the bullets hitting and then my neck went numb." There were 47 holes in the right side of the car. McDaniel, struck twice in the head and also in a thigh, arm and ankle, somehow stumbled 50 yards to the plant and fell unconscious. A striker's bullet tumbled McGinnis into the rye, but he climbed to his feet...
...neon lights, livid-hued customers sip their grisly 'shakes' or study a menu card which offers a wide selection of chemical concoctions made from substances utterly foreign to the milk-giving cow. For as little (or as much) as one shilling ninepence, the determined pleasure seeker may numb his insides with a 'frosted chocolate snowball' (frozen soya bean flour with mock cocoa gravy), a 'Hollywood Delight' (cold soya stew with ice vegetable jam), a 'Moo-moo Special' (mixed leftovers studded with damaged grapes) or a dollop of 'Stratosphere Kisses' (soya...
...linger on the obvious that for a while it barely makes the grade as comedy. Not content to have Francis show up his military superiors, Author-Scripter Stern lets the mule go on haranguing them as well. But in its best scenes, the picture kicks up enough fun to numb a tolerant moviegoer to its shortcomings. Actor O'Connor makes an amiable nitwit, and Francis (voice by horse opera's Chill Wills) is a tribute to the patience and technical skill of moviemaking...