Word: discomforts
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...there was slight, though not severe, difficulty in controlling the bowels. The fever lasted for only six or seven days, but all the muscles from the hips down were extremely sensitive to the touch and I had to have the knees supported by pillows. This condition of extreme discomfort lasted about three weeks...
...month. An A.A.F. officer explained the speed : "You see what the boys can do when they're going home." Sometimes Chinese military passengers turned up at airports with wives & children, or with concubines, hoping to take them along, but most showed good military discipline and resigned themselves to discomfort. The crowding was so great that they jampacked the floor in a sitting position, each man's back against another's bent knees. Because ground troops have a tendency to airsickness, an open barrel in the middle of the cabin was standard equipment...
...evacuees Poston (a conglomeration of cheerless wooden barracks on the unshaded desert) seemed like a concentration camp. The sun was cruel; dust was everywhere. The hospital had little medicine, food was often badly cooked; there was overcrowding, lack of privacy, discomfort. The camp's overworked administrative staff had been thrown together as hastily as the buildings...
...skin and infects the individual. All water found to contain these flukes is posted and personnel is warned not to bathe, wade or wash in it. The flukes, which usually attack the intestines and liver, are rarely lethal. They may cause a fever at first, followed by steady, prolonged discomfort and ill health. One bad schistosomiasis area is Okinawa...
Mindful of the unusually heavy snows and the discomfort of the past winter, the cautious people of the Granite State unbound their wallets, voted to buy record amounts of snow-removal and bridge-building equipment. They laid out unusually large sums, too, for such postwar projects as road construction, sewer systems, sewage disposal, and memorials for their servicemen...