Word: discomforted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attendant discomfort and difficulty, the rain (which was torrential and damaging only in scattered areas) brought jubilation to the dust bowl. "It was a joy just to lie in bed listening [to it]," wrote Frank Grimes, the aged editor of the Abilene (Texas) Reporter News. "If you had been just a little younger, you'd have climbed out of bed and rushed into the yard to squish the heavenly mud between your toes and turn your face to the sky." Many a farmer did stand shivering happily in the open; at Brownfield, Texas, the high-school band staged...
...years of undergraduate life. Freshmen are forbidden even to walk down the Club row; sophomores are but grudgingly permitted to participate in a few club functions, and full membership does not come until the junior year. The first year is especially grim. For most new men, added to the discomfort of adjusting to a new way of life are many social restrictions. Meals in the Commons are hectic and crowded, there is no place for fairly large groups of lower classmen to get together informally, and there are few opportunities to meet women...
Blame for the outbreak fell on the central kitchen with the announcement that students from Dunster, which has its own kitchen, who were guests at Winthrop, suffered the gastric discomfort during the night...
...which gave the whole colony its name was actually only a small part of the sprawling penal community-two other rocky islands and two mainland settlements along the banks of French Guiana's Maroni River. But the name sticks: only the Devil himself could have designed such hellish discomfort for his prisoners as those that abounded in the steaming jungles of Guiana, or hired jailers as efficient as the shark-infested seas and fever-ridden swamps that stood guard on all sides of the Cayenne colony. The world got its first full whiff of Devil's Island iniquity...
...Sachsenhausen concentration camp, which like Buchenwald was taken over from the Nazis; to this day the Reds still use both. For five years Hans Klose, along with 60,000 other prisoners in Sachsenhausen, slept on a wooden pallet 2-ft. wide (if one man in the row turned in discomfort, all had to turn). He lost his teeth and got tuberculosis. He was never tried, got no hearing, was charged with nothing. Then, on Jan. 27, 1950, the Russians abruptly told him that he was a free...