Word: numbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great are the numbers that they numb: no mind can do the sums of individual anguish, privation and frustration that make up the whole. In Chicago, Welfare Director David L. Daniel says that the Cook County rolls will increase from 485,000 at the end of 1970 to 625,000 this year. In Newark, 25% of the population is getting aid, and Essex County Welfare Director Philip K. Lazaro says: "We are on the brink of financial disaster." In Los Angeles, the case load is now above 800,000 and rising by 10,000 to 15,000 a month...
Staggering Sight. By the time the government finishes counting the casualties, the great Ganges cyclone may rank as the worst natural disaster of the 20th century-and one of the worst of all recorded history. The figures transcend normal comprehension and numb the mind. Officially, the toll at the end of last week stood at 150,000; the only natural catastrophe to claim more lives in this century was the 1920 earthquake that killed 180,000 in Kansu, China. Yet the government concedes that its count is far from complete and that newspaper estimates...
...alike can agree on, he occasionally concedes that the views of what Eisenhower called the military-industrial complex are not invariably wrong. Rather, he says modestly, "they do have a disproportionate influence on the decisions made by the Executive Branch of the Government." Nevertheless, even in an age grown numb to waste and stratospheric numbers, the sum of Proxmire's indictment is damning -and frightening...
...opening performance in London's National Theater production of Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem (TIME, Feb. 2) won glowing reviews and further enhanced her reputation in England, where at 35 she is already the leading actress of her generation. All of which only left her rather numb and glum amid the flowers in her dressing room at the Old Vic. "Everybody seems to be raving about the Oscar," she told TIME Correspondent Christopher Porterfield, "but I don't think it will do me that much good...
...tell you what it was like! These people coming in filthy, with glazed looks, numb. Nobody talking, nobody crying and the sounds of furious battle not yet ended pursuing them in the door. The emergency room floor, still covered with blood from yesterday's casualties, smelled in the heat of the day and was oppressive...