Word: vertigo
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...With straw ropes they lash their human burdens on their backs. They cry, "Please close your eyes and don't be scared. We've done this many times before." Then they pick a nimble passage over the broken bridge, while their passengers look down in terror and vertigo at the swirling waters far below. Safe on the opposite shore, many break down in sobs...
...peeking through documents in SS headquarters. One day Himmler showed him a medical case history covering "26 typed sheets of paper" and asked Kersten if he would be willing to take the patient. Dr. Kersten says he refused, when he saw that the man's troubles included vertigo, insomnia, laryngeal polyps, latent tuberculosis, progressive paralysis, impotence and syphilis. The patient's name: Adolf Hitler...
...Flying toward the lights, I suffered the worst vertigo I have ever experienced. . . . After landing, I bawled hell out of the mech in a loud voice even after he told me it wasn't his plane. Upon entering Operations, I pointed my finger at Colonel Blank, and told him I flew back alone with no instruments and never should have arrived by the books. . . . I sure was mad and I felt as though I had to tell somebody. I had a hard time keeping myself from talking long and loud. After I gave my report to Intelligence...
Hardest class of malingerers to detect are those who pretend to have nervous derangements such as headaches, neuralgic pains, vertigo, fits. Worst problem of all is distinguishing the malingerer from the psychopath. Hysterical vomiting, for example, has no more physical basis than self-induced vomiting, yet morally and medically it requires different treatment...
...part this inadequacy was due to the vertigo natural to the human brain in earthquakes. In part it was due to the fact that it was impossible to give all the answers when some of the basic questions were still to be asked. The chief value that remained to be appraised in the light of the changed world was the human value of man himself. What that value was in 1941 no book of 1941 told. Novelist Koestler came closest to doing it. His Darkness at Noon is laid in a Communist prison. In one scene an imprisoned Communist taps...