Word: discomfort
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Suppose a farmer is stung by a bee. He suffers only a temporary, curseworthy discomfort, forgets it. His blood cells manufacture antibodies against the bee venom. But instead of being turned loose, as they normally should, they may remain attached. The victim is then sensitized instead of protected from bee sting. Six months later he may be stung again. He faints, dies. This is allergic shock...
...every way more difficult than it had been before; there was less wealth in the country, it was harder to get a job and the future was uncertain for all of them; and they had read books that described not only the horror of war but its miserable discomfort. In the slums of Bermondsey they held pretty much of the same ideas. "You won't catch me fighting' if there's a war," the lads used to say to me. The wretched lodgings so many of them lived in, the high rents, the lack of employment rasperated them and they...
Else K. LaRoe, a Manhattan plastic surgeon, well knows how much discomfort women will stand in order to have a good figure, or even the illusion of one. She herself is a small, trim, exuberantly vivacious blonde in her forties. She claims to have lifted many faces, corrected many double chins, eye pouches, rolls of body fat. But her specialty is the woman with a "bust problem." She has now collected much of her experience in a book, The Breast Beautiful (Field; $2.50). Few doctors will consider it important, but to women its subject is of perennial interest...
...fashion of tightly laced waists, which flourished off & on for several hundred years, caused women great harm and discomfort. Despite the gibes of Satirist Montaigne and the objurgations of several French kings and of Cardinal Richelieu, ladies kept trying to cut themselves in two. In the late 18th Century, a lady had to call in both a manservant and a maidservant for the lacing job, and if she was stout the two helpers had to use a wooden crank. Ribs of these unfortunates were often so compressed that they overlapped, bringing on lung trouble, hemorrhages, other internal disorders. Two-thirds...
...Luftwaffe continued to come over in short nuisance raids and careful military attacks during the day, and in long merciless strangulation by night, Britain's leaders grew more & more concerned about the discomfort and discontent of little people. If anyone could hold their confidence, it was old Winnie. His fond grip on them grew every hour. Rich and poor alike paid him honor. Britain felt that it was cornered, but that Winnie would find a fence to climb over and a mine to hide...