Word: discomforted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sleep with their jobs-gunners with their guns, drivers with their trucks and jeeps. Mosquito nets are a necessity against anopheles. It rains almost every night-weepy tropical rain that soaks into the bedrolls and seeps through tarpaulin. The nights are passed in wet chill and discomfort and the days in mud and filth that the Marines, who have been too busy fighting, have not had time to clean up. The Marines deal with filth on their clothes and bodies in the Unga River, which runs miraculously swift and clear through the occupied area. The swim in the Unga...
...other American city- will be bombed continually by large numbers of planes, it will be better to forget all about blackouts, air raid warnings, and anti-aircraft barrages. The damage that 15 or 20 planes could do at night is nothing compared with the loss of man hours, discomfort and general turmoil...
...function . . . an organism integrated into the plane. . . . The battle between the Nazi and the Occident was reduced to the scale of my job." At that point he realized that if they had avoided this assignment (he could have) it would have brought only "a sharp sense of discomfort. As if a necessary molting had miscarried." At 33,000 feet, with the controls frozen (it was 60 below zero), and with a village "a handful of gravel" beneath them, Dutertre sighted six enemy planes a quarter of a mile, ten seconds, below, and these planes swept upward. With an effort which...
...fare increase effective Feb. 10, letting them take a nick out of the public's pocket at a time when the public cannot escape. So citizens will not only travel less, they will be less comfortable when they travel, and they will pay extra for their discomfort...
...virus. It usually infects only one eye, which becomes bloodshot, swollen, drips tears like a leaking faucet. At first the inner eyelid is speckled red, like trout, later looks like crimson velvet. During the second week there is occasional stabbing pain in the eyeball; after that there is little discomfort except the continual dripping...