Word: affliction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Doctors are especially concerned because people can obtain PPA without prescriptions. The drug companies themselves acknowledge that it should not be taken by anyone with heart disease, hypertension, diabetes or thyroid disease. These conditions often afflict the overweight, in many instances without their knowledge. PPA, alone or together with other drugs, such as monoamine oxidase inhibitors (antidepressants) or indomethacin (an antiarthritic), can induce severe episodes of hypertension. There has also been a case of kidney failure in a woman who had been taking a PPA preparation for a few weeks along with a few tablets of aspirin and acetaminophen...
John Kenneth Galbraith, economist, at Yale: "I can't ask you to go out and comfort the afflicted; that would be considered eccentric. But perhaps you can afflict the comfortable...
...pivotal issue in the Pope's speech was one of tactics. John Paul believes more rights can be gained for the oppressed through moral education than by agitation and revolution. Said he: "Whatever the miseries or sufferings that afflict man, it is not through violence, the interplay of power, and political systems, but through the truth concerning man, that he journeys toward a better future...
Hemorrhoids, or piles, are one of civilization's oldest medical complaints. They afflict perhaps half of all adult Americans. One famous sufferer was supposedly Napoleon, who is said to have had such excruciating pain at Waterloo he could not sleep or sit on his horse. Carter's "physical injury," as he described it, was less debilitating. It only cost him, besides that one day's appointments, his daily jogging and a quail hunt...
...musical features Scott as a producer with a month left to live. As his doctor (Art Carney) tells him, his inexplicable illness is one that seems only to afflict show people. Scott's last show must be a hit in order for him to leave a proper inheritance to the daughter he has never seen as a grownup. She, of course, turns out to be the chorus girl who saves the show by secretly advancing him money and then going on when the temper amental star (Van Devere) incapacitates herself. The juvenile she falls in love with...