Word: numbs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your hands hurt, go numb or tingle, or you drop things, stop typing, see a doctor, take rest breaks, and see our Website [http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/rsi/]," he says...
...outspoken champion of freedom who won admiration around the world for daring to stand up to China's communist leadership. At a press conference held in the New York Public Library, Wei said, "Those who enjoy democracy, liberty and human rights... should not allow their own personal happiness to numb them into forgetting the many others who are still struggling against tyranny, slavery and poverty." In an interview with TIME on Saturday, Wei said that China's leaders view human-rights concessions as a tool of diplomacy: "They are using political prisoners as hostages in international politics...
Fahey's family met last week's news with a mixture of relief and "absolute horror." Says her sister, Kathleen Fahey-Hosey, 37: "I'm numb. We always suspected that Anne Marie was disposed of at sea, but once you hear the details, it's gruesome...
Combining a crusty overview with extensive oral histories, Citizen Soldiers follows combat units and individual battle-numb troopers from the invasion of Normandy to the Allied victory in Berlin. Not many starters finished. The period from June 7, 1944, to May 7, 1945, is saturated in blood, sometimes frozen solid. What was called the Crusade in Europe is in large part a story of questionable judgments, dumb luck, trial and error (the easiest way to dig a foxhole in icebound terrain is to start with a hand grenade; the main lesson learned in street fighting, says one survivor...
...past few weeks? Does it seem as though you just have no interest in school or friends anymore? Have you had problems concentrating in class, and are your grades slipping as a result? Do you feel anxious much of the time? Have you been drinking more to numb the "pain" you're feeling...