Word: discomforted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Uruguayan seaside resort called Punta del Este, 21 nations of the Western Hemisphere gather this week to decide whether to censure Castro, crowd him with sanctions, or merely live in discomfort with him. Castro himself is taking the meeting seriously. Heading Cuba's 40-man delegation to the hemispheric foreign ministers' meeting is his puppet President, Osvaldo Dorticós, a traveler to Moscow who ran for local office on the Communist ticket as far back as 1948. At his elbow as the delegation's "adviser" is Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, editor of Cuba's Communist daily...
...Discomfort. The Reynolds verdict is only one of the legal triumphs savored by Author Nizer in My Life in Court. A sort of East Coast version of the late Jerry Giesler (TIME, Jan. 12), Nizer won a whopping settlement for Eleanor Holm in her divorce action against Billy Rose, represented Bobo Rockefeller when she divorced Winthrop Rockefeller, proved that Charlie Chaplin had plagiarized the idea for The Great Dictator from Author Konrad Bercovici, masterminded Loew's, Incorporated's battle to prevent its takeover by deposed M-G-M Boss Louis B. Mayer...
...patient holds suspended from a chain. Dr. Kolouch arranges signals that will get the patient into a hypnotic trance promptly when needed in the future. He then assures the patient that he will feel nothing during the operation, that he will awake from the anesthesia with only minimum discomfort, and that he will soon be able to go back to work...
...official forecast for today is, "Increasing cloudiness and not so warm. Light rain beginning in afternoon. Tonight cloudy with rain." The CRIMSON takes this to mean a warm, cloudy, muggy, and generally uncomfortable day (you know, high discomfort index), clearing by evening...
...foie gras, were amiable enough. "This should not take too long," Prince Souvanna explained, puffing on a big cigar. "Long conferences have no charm, and charm is one of the ingredients of life, at least among Laotians." The charm was slightly marred for Souvanna by acute discomfort from a boil so located as to make prolonged sitting painful (he skipped one session...