Word: numbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cried: "We're in! We're in!" Hours before, when Rich ard Milhous Nixon had been asked how he felt about the first intimations of a G.O.P. landslide, his reply had been guarded: "At a time like this, you just don't feel good-you feel numb." Now. with Pat Nixon at his side, as she had been throughout the campaign, all numbness had disappeared. The election Scoreboard had seen to that. Reaching for a drink. Nixon seemed to relax for the first time since he launched his bone-wearying campaign on Sept...
Germany last week was a stage for an unexpected act in a great drama-the struggle between the pain and glory of freedom under God and the numb death of tyranny under man. It was Kirchentag-a five-day rally of Germany's Evangelical Church-and church officials had never seen such crowds. Protestants streamed in from all over the country, 80,000 on the first day, 300,000 at the close (the U.S. Army provided tents to house some of the visitors). Long before the proceedings began, they packed medieval Roemerberg Square and flowed out into the surrounding...
...heroes") stampeded his second convention with his silver-tongued, silver-oriented (16 oz. of silver to 1 oz. of gold) oratory. In 1924, then a member of the Jackson County Court under the auspices of hard-knuckled Democrat Boss Tom Pendergast, Politician Truman sat with ears growing numb under his crystal-set earphones. He listened to almost every word of the 14-day, 103 -ballot convention in Madison Square Garden (Alabama-"24 votes for Oscahhh W. Undahhhwood") that finally nominated John W. Davis to run against Cal Coolidge (and Charles G. Dawes). At that convention the governor of Colorado...
...sergeant (Don Taylor) seems to be a good Joe at heart, but then nobody can quite reach his heart. In a brilliant piece of character-writing, Scriptwriter Robert Lewin explains his man. When the sergeant was a boy, his father died of drink; the boy's feelings, already numb with shame, were frozen fast with fright when his guardian, a religious fanatic, told him that his father had gone to the Devil, and that there, but for the grace of God, he would...
...British thought that such documentation would numb the shock which the deportation caused at home and abroad, they were mistaken. Cried British Labor Leader Hugh Gaitskell: "This seems to me an act of folly." Echoed the Liberal Party's Leader Clement Davies: "An act of madness." While imperialist-minded newspapers like Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express approved, the Manchester Guardian editorialized: "By this action the British government will have made Archbishop Makarios more than ever the leader of his people . . . Now there can be no settlement...