Word: traumas
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...time, Klassen was just emerging as a top skater, winning the world speedskating all-around title. Forced to the sidelines at the beginning of a season, unable to feel with all the fingers in her right hand, Klassen struggled with the lingering psychological trauma from the accident. She doesn't talk about it much, but the major hurdle she had to overcome was the fear of falling into the path of another blade in the corners. "I won't tell you how close she came to losing her life," Mark Wild, the ice-maintenance technician who applied first aid before...
...NATIONAL TRAUMA. Well, the fracture in our society widened. It's still there--that crack still goes down the middle of it. You could call the war a trauma. It was, of course. But it had an epic quality to it. It was more than a trauma, really. Sherman's march was not only a devastating military campaign, it was like a great scythe that cut down and uprooted an entire culture. By creating thousands of refugees, black and white, who attached themselves to the march, it became another reality, another state of being. A floating world. Everything was reversed...
...says that while scientists are not certain what causes stuttering, he is sure that the shock of having polio and the resulting “trauma of being divided body and soul” triggered the genetic impediment, which has affected other members of his family...
...Cheney's stubborn diffidence may have been something else entirely: a consequence of the incoherence and confusion that come with emotional trauma, as well as an understandable desire to protect oneself and one's friends from the ravening horde at a moment of personal anguish...
...Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza greatly increased Israel’s level of support internationally,” he said. “The support for Israel among Americans is now higher than ever before.” “The Gaza disengagement, with all the trauma that it involved, will be the precedent for the future. This is an exquisitely painful process, but I think that a solid majority at least understood that this was unavoidable,” Oren said.“The paradigm for Israel has been to capture a territory and then...