Word: numbing
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...Church in Detroit, accompanied by her grandfather who stoked the church fires, dusted the pews. First organist at St. Paul's was Sara Angelina Waffle, who on severe winter days had her old-fashioned pump organ pushed up next to the stove to prevent her fingers from becoming numb. Frequently in the course of a sermon Organist Waffle would sidle off her bench to put a stick of wood on the fire...
...hold grievance that the Senate had not protected him to point and edge, and a snarling shuttlecock of 'Your fault' began to grow up, which was interrupted by a message that plunged them all into the well of misery together. . . . The old man hardly seemed to care, numb to an aching misery, not so much that his ideals had died, but warped into forms unrecognizable to himself, and in the procedure twisted askew the axis of his private life." And even schoolboys still struggling- with Caesar's Commentaries can tell Author Pratt he is wrong to write...
...Spain's Murcia Province 6,000 citizens ate bread made from flour containing powdered lead, whereupon 6,000 stomachs churned, 12,000 legs grew numb. The flour distributor, one Jose Merono Olmos, was held in $35,000 bail, tentatively assessed $70,000 damages...
...Congress the technique, which he worked out with a Mayo associate, Dr. George Elgie Brown, of stopping Raynaud's Disease. This is a disease to which neurotic young women are peculiarly susceptible. After exposure to cold, shock or insult, their fingers or toes turn white, feel icy, grow numb, hurt. Attacks last from a few minutes to an hour. After many attacks the fingers or toes decay, may drop off. Sometimes the tip of the nose, the ears, parts of the lip rot away...
Peter Koinange's worst fright came during his first cold spell, in Ohio. Numb, he thought he was growing paralyzed. Of U. S. phenomena he has been most im-pressed by the Statue of Liberty, skywriting, Negro spirituals, politicians. He took readily to collegiate sweaters, rejected knickers as undignified. Having specialized in sociology, he hopes to make his people yearn for knowledge. Now the Kikuyu's prime ambition-which he achieves only by years of prying and pulling with coils of wire, disks of wood, cane pegs, gourds-is to make his ear lobes touch his shoulders...