Word: benumbing
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...with a request for $535 million. Cities .and states were clamoring for civil-defense funds and guidance, he said, and he voiced a warning: "In our present state of unawareness and unpreparedness, a half-dozen bombs on as many cities, with a consequent million casualties, would so shock and benumb the American public that the very will to fight and win could be lost...
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