Word: discomfort
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...grown in eggs. At London's Institute of Ophthalmology the researchers found their man: an old-age pensioner, 71, who had had both eyes removed because of injury and infection (not trachoma). Into his empty eye sockets the researchers inoculated their egg-grown trachoma virus. He had considerable discomfort for the first week, and slight discomfort for two weeks more. Though his conjunctiva continued to secrete infective virus, he has needed no treatment...
...West's leaders and to inspire new unity and new firmness on Berlin; he could scarcely walk, scarcely eat. "If it isn't cancer," he told a friend before leaving, "then I feel the trip is too important to put off. If it is cancer, then additional discomfort doesn't fundamentally matter anyway...
Flawed and fragile early novels are often like youthful snapshots: a source of faint discomfort to the author, a delight to the doting fan, and a revealing glimpse into the past. Two such novels have now been issued in the U.S., one by Nancy Mitford, the British author (Love in a Cold Climate) who hates Americans, and the other by Christopher Isherwood, the British author (Prater Violet) who became one. The first is worth noting because of the surprisingly naive notions of its adult author, the second because it marks the jumping-off point in a talented young writer...
...conception of comedy as presented here is generally quite low, resting on the two assumptions that all discomfort is a source of humor, and that any action can be made funny if it is repeated often enough. The best examples are the more subtle representations of these simple precepts: a woman walking away from having sat on a pie, not knowing that it was a pie; or the mass exposure of unfaithful husbands...
...heat, it's the humidity," the U.S. Weather Bureau has finally decided to warn-or at least try to warn-people when a particularly sticky day is in the offing. By the time next summer's heat and humidity come along, the forecaster will have a "discomfort index" that combines both the air's temperature and the amount of moisture in it. Under the formula, explains Climatologist Earl C. Thorn, a discomfort figure of 75 might mean 80° temperature and 60% relative humidity, or it could mean 85° temperature and 30% relative humidity...