Word: discomforts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such patient, remote researches grows the body of knowledge which another Koch or Pasteur may some day synthesize into a cancer cure. In the meantime, cried Mayo Clinic's Dr. William Carpenter MacCarty in Toronto last week, let the world beware of any prolonged stomach ache or internal discomfort, no matter how slight. Said he: "It's a great mistake for people to think that cancer in its earliest stages produces any of the signs of severe illness. People should be warned to have examinations of internal ailments when there is still a chance for recovery...
...knife. . . . The death of a Turkish bridge or rail, machine or gun, or high explosive was more profitable to us than the death of a Turk. . . . We could not afford casualties. . . . Our ideal was to keep his railways just working, but only just, with the maximum of loss and discomfort to him. . . . We used the smallest force in the quickest time at the farthest place...
...Wagner had a cause for civil action against the local manager if the fee were not paid as per contract. He could have demanded cash in advance or the filing of a bond for the payment of the fee. He did neither. Mr. Thomas' patrons suffered discomfort, inconvenience and perhaps financial loss through no fault of their own. Custom, in the forming of which the public has no voice, cannot absolve the artist nor his manager from responsibility...
Deep in the Central American bush, a rebel leader put forth the credo of El Chipote: "Death is but a moment of discomfort, not to be taken seriously." El Chipete, Nicaraguan slang for "tough guy", was the name of a mountain stronghold and the description of its dauntless commander, General Cesar Augusto Sandino. Bearing the names of emperors of old, and living in the region of the Mayan empire of fabulous wealth, he became the arch-enemy of modern imperialism...
...ruled his men with an iron hand, who married to the music of gunfire, who rallied his followers to the cause of Nicaraguan independence, was more than a more jungle bandit--he was the personification of revolt against American imperialism. Death to sandino was but a moment of discomfort, not to be taken seriously. His all-consuming passion was liberty...