Word: deadening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Economist Milton Friedman, a former Goldwater braintruster. He proposes that the Federal Government set a $3,000 yearly income as the minimum for a family of four, and pay a man 50% of the difference if he falls below that figure; to give the man 100%, says Friedman, would deaden his initiative...
...there was a week. The august members of Georgia's Augusta National Golf Club were embarrassed when Nicklaus ripped their course to shreds last year-firing a record 17-under-par 271 for 72 holes, winning the Masters by nine strokes. Last week there were spongy fairways to deaden long drives and two new greens that were as fast as billiard tables. Hostile fans screamed, "Too bad, Fat Jack!" whenever Nicklaus flubbed a shot. History was against Jack: nobody had ever won the Masters twice in a row. And so, it seemed, was fate...
...neck, just below the skull-one place where the spinal cord and its multiplex nerve cables are not completely encased in bone. Then he inserts a hollow, stainless-steel needle, only one hundredth of an inch in diameter, and guides the needle toward the nerves he wants to deaden with the aid of instant X rays that an assistant hands to him every ten seconds. One group of nerve fibers in the spinal cord serves the legs, another the trunk, and a third the arms. When the tip of the hollow needle is in about the right place, Neurosurgeon Mullan...
Last week Lucy was wheeled into an operating room, given an injection of Novocain in the neck, then a second injection to deaden the phrenic nerve. Surgeons watched as the Novocain took effect and Lucy's hiccups suddenly stopped. Reasonably sure that they had found the source of the trouble, they proceeded to the next step: "crushing" the nerve with a clamp. Lucy's hiccuping diaphragm remained at rest...
...dwarfed by the reunion with her father in the final scene--a disgracefully pointless ending for an experienced dramatist like Cole. The libretto's simple-minded images ("today I went wandering as a bird") and pompous archaisms (the story is "for them that have an eye to see") deaden the opera still further. The characters emerge as cute Sunday school paste...