Word: dolorism
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...billion years old, since even the lowly starfish may experience it. Virtually every human being who ever lived has suffered from it, perhaps dozens or hundreds of times. But why? And what is it? Pathology textbooks take refuge in rolling Latin, describing inflammation by its signs: rubor, calor, tumor, dolor (redness, heat, swelling, pain). It is the reaction of a part or all of the body to injury. In its later stages it includes the processes needed to repair the injury...
...substances, such as histamine. At first these constrict the blood vessels, to minimize bleeding, and initiate the clotting process. But they damage the vessels' walls, causing dilation and rubor, and letting out white cells and antibody proteins. Fluid oozes from blood vessels into the tissues, causing tumor and dolor. Biochemical signals sent through the blood and lymph systems call for the production of more infection-fighting white cells and antibodies. If the threat has been great enough, the inflammation suffuses the whole body, creating a generalized calor-fever. In its final stages, inflammation stimulates the production of new capillaries...
After Laver's victory, there were the inevitable comparisons with Budge. Granting the general dolor of tennis today, Coach Mercer Beasley, at 80 the judge-historian of amateur tennis, says: "Laver has more equipment than Budge ever had. He would have beaten Budge." Professional Promoter Jack Kramer, who as an amateur got halfway to a grand slam in 1947, takes a somewhat cooler view: "Right now he's not in Budge's class. Sedgman, Gonzales, Hoad, Rosewall, Segura, even Trabert, who's 32, could beat Laver. When Laver turns pro, he's going...
...dolor of television's long dull summer, almost any new face would have been welcome. But with last week's show. NBC's The Lively Ones had outlived the first blush of its July arrival in such splendid shape that it was clearly more than a child of summertime's special forbearance. With a polished, inventive approach to the musical variety-show format, The Lively Ones is indeed lively and, more than lively, likable...
...Yankee Dolor. In part, the new life in the American League can be laid to New York's Yankees, for this is the year the Yankees seem certain to lose the pennant. With the Yanks floundering, the new hit-less-wonder White Sox and the rebuilt Indians are playing like champions, and up and down the league the old also-rans are hustling with new life. Similarly, the National League's vigor can be traced in part to the troubles of the Milwaukee Braves, the league's soundest team at season's start, whose attack...