Word: discomforted
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...with iron bed, enamel wash basin and kerosene lamp; meals usually consist of fried bananas and other fruit. The old man stubbornly refuses to go modern. Says he: "Circumstances command that the hospital be primitive in keeping with the primitive state of the people." He believes that Africans enjoy discomfort, and that they are often afraid of a gleaming white modern hospital, but not of one that reminds them of their villages-a concept less valid today than 20 years...
...Jersey, on that part of the high-speed turnpike that cuts like a six-lane ribbon across a five-mile stretch near Newark Airport, motorist are conscious of only one thing: the area stinks from industrial chimneys. But that is merely a discomfort. Far more dangerous is the fact that fog can and does descend upon the marshy meadowlands along the turnpike. To warn motorists, New Jersey has spent some $300,000 on fog horns, fog lights, etc. But nothing seems to work. Early one morning last week, the lethal soup swirled in. Warning signs flashed futilely. Samuel Baker...
This psychologist's concern for controls made Boring uncomfortable at Harvard, for the psychologists were still in a department dominated by philosophers. The discomfort was also a challenge: Boring felt a "mission to rescue Harvard psychology from the philosophers." Though he eventually saved psychology from the philosophers by bisecting the department, he recalls that he never reformed the philosophers. "At the party celebrating the separation of the psychology and philosophy departments, I said, as usual, that psychology needs controls. Whitehead made a delightful little speech: 'They devote their lives to studying the human mind and still they don't trust...
...Senators to be relaxed in their relations with each other." The only alternative, the merit system, "would set off a wild kind of infighting for positions. Politicians are naturally a highly competitive breed." McGovern, despite his academic background, is prepared to take the system as it is, and his discomfort at not being able to think of a better system is not very acute...
When halothane was introduced as an anesthetic in 1956, it seemed nearly perfect. Unlike ether and cyclopropane, it is both nonflammable and nonexplosive-a valuable asset in the modern operating room crammed with electronic gadgetry. It causes patients a minimum of discomfort and, it seemed, could do them no harm at all. It rapidly became widely used. But last week doctors were disturbed by reports in the New England Journal of Medicine that halothane might have caused as many as ten deaths by damaging the patient's liver...