Word: stupors
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...joke darkly when they talk about what was left of Iskandariyah's mayor after he was blown up by a powerful roadside bomb called an EFP earlier this month. They have to. The details are so horrible that one either laughs or cries, or falls into that numb, silent stupor known to combat-hardened troops as the thousand-yard stare. They know EFPs are often aimed at them...
...many actors before her - Robert Downey Jr., River Phoenix, Christian Slater, Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe - Lohan is as self-destructive as she is gifted. She crashed her Mercedes on Sunset Boulevard on Memorial Day weekend, got arrested for a DUI, was photographed slumped in a car in a stupor, and checked into her second rehab stint in four months. The once lovable (and bankable) child star looked as if she was finally trading the vivacity that first won over audiences in 1998's The Parent Trap for vapidity...
ADAMS: Brain Break patrol and alley-like outdoor “patio” be damned, Adams is by far the classiest of the Houses. Drink yourself into a rosy stupor with Adams House resident oenophiles/wine stewards, smirk at your cool indoor courtyard, and practice throwing the gallery openings you were born for in the Artspace. Just get ready to elbow your way into the outsider-infested dining hall and be prepared for the sorriest excuse of a salad bar you’ll ever see.CABOT: You’ve never heard of Cabot? Have you heard of the Quad...
...larger was the uncharacteristically stingy Harvard defense, which held Princeton to only seven field goals on 30 percent shooting. After Tigers center Zach Finley dropped in a hook shot to open the scoring in the second half, pushing the lead to 11, the Crimson snapped out of its offensive stupor. A jumper by Housman broke the seal on the Harvard basket and served to ignite the explosive point guard and his team. Goffredo earned his first two points on a driving bank shot, sophomore forward Andrew Pusar drove baseline for a layup, and then Housman took the game over, scoring...
...Modern science has confirmed this, with electroencephalograms showing that after a few days in solitary, prisoners' brain waves shift toward a pattern characteristic of stupor and delirium. When sensory deprivation is added--as when Padilla was seen being led from his cell wearing a blindfold and sound-deadening earphones--the breakdown is even worse. As long ago as 1952, studies at Montreal's McGill University showed that when researchers eliminate sight, sound and, with the use of padded gloves, tactile stimulation, subjects can descend into a hallucinatory state in as little as 48 hours...