Word: blistering
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...Boston Marathon for the third time this year, finished in four hours and 12 minutes—a personal best. Shearer mentions the physical intensity inherent in the process. “So much can go wrong,” he says. “You can get a blister. You can get cramps. You run by the medical centers along the course, and you see people with tears on their faces because they can’t keep going.”But throughout those 26.2 painful miles, Bostonians fill the streets to support the runners. Their presence...
...ripping groundstrokes, hitting those deep crosscourt backhands that allowed him to move his opponent around. That got him the match.”A reconfigured doubles lineup won Harvard’s other point.SANTA BARBARA 4, HARVARD 3With Clayton out due to a severe blister on his foot, a modified Harvard lineup could not hold off Santa Barbara on Tuesday, losing 4-3.“We were back on our heels all match,” Fish said, adding that it seemed for a time that all six singles players would lose their first set.Playing...
...Guinea worm makes its presence known in the human body when it tries to leave, emerging in a painful blister. But it does not go far on its own, and must instead be removed manually through a daily bandaging routine. Health workers unwrap the bandage from the day before, tug the worm a few millimeters, and then apply a new bandage. The process is excruciating, as a worm can take up to two weeks to be completely pulled out, and patients with an emerged worm are often in too much pain to walk. Being unable to walk means being unable...
...stars fall out of the sky in meteor showers while young people are gunned down at random on the playground, on the stoop or on U.S. 26 in Portland, Ore., where a 29-year-old man was shot on Aug. 11 after merging into another driver's lane. Tempers blister; discipline runs thin. We've had summers of riots, of stalkers and serial killers, of orange alerts and Amber alerts, West Nile and wildfires. This August brings familiar fears and fresh ones, the storms now pacing offshore with disarming names like Flossie and Erin; we know...
...haul myself up to the bed. My woolen socks were stuck to my feet with dried pus. When I succeeded in peeling the socks off with my numb and swollen fingers, I saw that my feet were also swollen to enormous size. Under each toe was a large blister. I could not take the socks completely off because some of the blisters had broken and the pus had dried, gluing the socks to my feet. I managed to stagger to the door and called the guard. ''May I see the doctor, please.'' ''What for?'' ''My wrists and feet are injured...