Word: numbing
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...Much like the 1999 Columbine shootings that occurred in the familiar hallways, cafeteria, and library of a community high school, the massacre at Tech took place in a place of enlightenment, tolerance, and learning, a place that is supposed to be safe. As a society, we have become numb to murder on the battlefield or on anonymous city streets, but when a college campus is the scene such carnage at the hands of one of its own members, it is all the more shocking, somehow more real. As students, we are inundated with the wise words of professors and parents...
Shawn Haviland didn’t let the cold numb his right arm or numb him to the significance of Saturday’s win over Princeton. It was a rivalry game against Harvard’s decade-long nemesis in the battle for Ivy League supremacy and against the squad that ended the Crimson’s NCAA aspirations with an Ivy Championship Series sweep last May. It was the junior right-hander’s first victory of the season, his first in over 11 months. And it came over Tigers ace Christian Staehely, who was named...
...remember the countless afternoons spent in the backyard playing out that defining moment. The moment when the spotlight shines solely on you. That singular instance where you realize that you, after the many hours of work and dedication, finally made it. And now, as your mouth is too numb to speak and the joy sets upon you, your index finger, raised high into the air, expresses all that needs to be said...“We’re number...
...Around my wrists where the handcuffs had cut into my flesh, blood and pus continue to ooze out of the wounds. My nails were purple and felt as if they were going to fall off. I touched the back of each hand, only to find the skin and flesh numb. I tried to curl up my fingers but could not because they were the size of carrots. I prayed to God to help me recover the use of my hands. After a while, I tried to get up. But I had to stifle a cry of pain, for my feet...
...feel numb. And I know you wouldn't approve of that. All your life you have struggled to encourage both Turks and Armenians to shake off the mutual numbness in their hearts so that they can start feeling each other's emotions and hearing each other's words...