Word: discomforted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...town called Woodbridge-a dormitory for factory workers perched above the marshes-wives, fathers, husbands, sons converged from the neat towns of the Jersey shore. They gathered in numbed and desperate numbers at the entrances of hospitals, tugged at the sleeves of rescue workers, sat in rigid discomfort on the hard chairs in the Sunday-school room of Woodbridge's Methodist Church...
MacLeish cited examples of large audiences unable to obtain seats or enduring great discomfort at recent lectures given by Eleanor Roosevelt, Carl Sandburg, Bertrand Russell, and T. S. Eliot. "Certainly no university wishes to deprive its students of such experiences as these," MacLeish said...
Pepsodent Smile. The $17,500 post was Eric Johnston's first Government job. But he was no stranger to the national stage. He had first flashed on to the scene in the late 1930s, a handsome, vigorous young industrialist at war with the air of uneasiness and discomfort then clouding the American business world. A capitalist who was willing to preach capitalism when other U.S. businessmen were hiding behind slogans and cursing the New Deal, he had built four businesses of his own in the Pacific Northwest, then rode out to champion the cause of business, small and large...
...many a hospital patient, the worst ordeal of all is the indignity and discomfort of the bedpan. Nonetheless, doctors and nurses for years have stubbornly insisted on its use by the bedridden. In the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, Manhattan Doctors Joseph Benton, Henry Brown and Howard Rusk report the results of a careful observation at Bellevue Hospital that may foreshadow the bedpan...
George Orwell had the gift of honesty as other writers have the gift of the satin phrase. His literary mark was his own: he sniped at all kinds of intellectual cant, loved personal freedom with an irascible passion, felt himself tied to ordinary people by strong memories of plebeian discomfort, and wrote in a style as bare and sharp as a winter tree...