Word: discomfort
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...years, I have been squawking about that cotton sheet stretched over rubber or plastic. It is responsible for more discomfort, sleepless nights, and barbiturates administered than any other single factor...
...shook his head violently to see if the motion would induce space sickness. Nothing happened. "I have had no ill effects at all from zero G," he reported. "It's very pleasant, as a matter of fact. Visual acuity is still excellent. No astigmatic effects. No nausea or discomfort whatsoever...
...reentering the atmosphere. During the inspection, Mrs. John Glenn Sr. expressed some motherly concern over the lack of space in a spaceship: "I'd think your feet would go to sleep lying there so long." John reassured her that in a weightless state there is no feeling of discomfort. "I meant before you went off, while you were waiting there," commented Clara Glenn. Explained her son patiently: "Well, you can exercise and move your legs...
...seems strange and slightly ridiculous that you should express special discomfort for the Congo's savagery in the same issue in which you have a certain "French Flower" asking whether it is Christian to torture one's enemies, and concluding that it is. I cannot muster any greater horror for the African style of madness than for that of Western culture. Plastic bombs seem to be better mutilators than do knives...
...N.E.B.M." (no eating between meals). Average Scholar Charles will probably take the classroom work in stride, for Gordonstoun does not pretend to great academic excellence. Instead, it wants to give a boy "the ability to follow out what he believes to be the right course in the face of discomfort, hardships, dangers, mockery, boredom; skepticism and impulses of the moment"-useful training for anyone, let alone a future King...