Word: numbingly
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...whisper of them as they break in close. There is a gunlike report and a sharp pain in your shoulder. In the windshield a large hole through the safety glass. You think you've been hit. The co-pilot's wrist is bloody, and your shoulder feels numb. You can't go fast enough; you're crawling over that target. You've got to level off and fly straight to drop those bombs, but you'd rather do anything than give those gunners a straight shot at you. You level off and hang...
This paradoxical pronouncement that love & hate are coeternal is the profoundest wisdom that Spender has to offer-half a lifetime after he, a sensitive rebel, repudiated the numb world of 20th-Century English idealism to look for new answers to life & death...
...Army has a laconic term for chronic befuddlement: snafu.* Last week U.S. citizens knew that gasoline rationing and rubber requisitioning were snafu. For months the people and their leaders had pussyfooted around the twin horrors. There were orders and counter-orders. All were different. The people, numb with bewilderment, choked with wrath, gave...
...food is used to lure skilled workers to the Nazi war industries; in other places food is removed so that Jews and unwanted nationals will die. Those who play ball with the Nazis eat better than those who don't. The Nazis know that the undernourished are too numb to revolt...
...public was also studying radio. War has sensitized many a normally numb ear to the profound difference between commentators like Mutual's Raymond Gram Swing, whose concern has been wholly with the news, and one like Mutual's $130,000-a-year Gabriel Heatter, whose soughing sanctimony and elephantine fight talk sound most appropriate when he urges the oily virtues of "my good friend, Kreml Shampoo...