Word: discomforts
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...Cubans were exuberant, to the particular discomfort of the Canadian team. Billeted next door to the Cubans, the Canadians complained that they were kept awake half the night by the sound of bongo drums. "Someone told us Fidel Castro put through a phone call of congratulations," explained one Canadian athlete, "and the Cubans went wild...
...Reston's emergency operation for appendicitis* at Peking's Anti-Imperialist Hospital went smoothly, but 36 hours later he was "in considerable discomfort if not pain" from gas pressure distending his stomach and intestines. With the patient's approval, the hospital's acupuncture specialist inserted three needles in Reston's right elbow and below the knee. He twisted them "to stimulate the intestine." Reported Reston: "That sent ripples of pain racing through my limbs and at least had the effect of diverting my attention from the distress in my stomach." Next, the doctor resorted...
...bungling civilians, and a cultivated air of resentment about having let himself get involved in the whole messy business in the first place When Ayub Khan yielded the presidency to him two years ago, Yahya switched from khaki to dark business suits, which he still wears with obvious discomfort. As if to emphasize his longing for the barracks, he occasionally carries a swagger stick and misses no chance to play the simple, straight-talking soldier...
...ever tallied the exact number, millions of people-probably one out of every ten-suffer at various times from cold sores. Produced by the herpes simplex virus, the unsightly sores appear on the lips, around the eyes or even on the genitals, and can cause swelling and considerable discomfort before they run their two-week course and disappear. Doctors have been able to do little for most cold-sore sufferers except minimize their discomfort with soothing medications. But now a team of dermatologists at the Baylor University College of Medicine in Houston has developed a treatment that promises to relieve...
...continuous comfort may be the treacherous element in the soft lens," according to Dr. G. Peter Halberg, corresponding secretary of the Contact Lens Association of Ophthalmologists. "If you get hurt by the hard lens, you usually know it immediately." A soft lens, he noted, may mask the warning discomfort of an eye injury. Indeed, Dr. Richard Troutman, surgeon director of the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, has already seen three "complications" involving experimental soft contact lenses. The patients later required cornea grafts...