Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nadir was Memorial Day, normally a flesh-pressing bonanza for a politician. For Mondale, it began in Fort Lee, N.J., with catcalls from the disciples of Lyndon LaRouche Jr., a demagogic conspiracy theorist who is running for President, and went downhill from there. On the Jersey shore, where a sunny holiday attracts upwards of 3 million bathers, Mondale found instead about a hundred hardy souls huddled against a driving rainstorm. The day ended at a hotel in Cherry Hill, where a waitress mistook Mondale for Gary Hart...
...used to teach patients to relieve tension, has proved helpful for a number of ailments, including one of the most perplexing problems in medicine: phantom limb pain, the often agonizing sensations that amputees "feel" in missing limbs. Psychophysiologist Richard Sherman, of Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center in Fort Gordon, Ga., has found that the pain, which afflicts about 80% of amputees at one time or another, is sometimes due to muscle spasms in the stump. When Sherman teaches patients to relax the affected muscles through biofeedback training, the sensations in the phantom limb usually disappear...
...need for a radical new approach to the treatment of pain became obvious to Bonica while serving as chief of anesthesiology at Fort Lewis, near Tacoma, during World...
Traditionally, pain therapy had not been regarded as an area for specialists, and the treatment of choice was drugs, usually morphine. But combat produced a record number of patients with severe trauma. The war in the Pacific alone regularly filled the 7,700 beds at the military hospital at Fort Lewis with troops enduring amputations, nerve injuries and multiple fractures. Bonica became responsible for finding ways of alleviating their suffering...
...volunteers were reconstructing. An International Harvester tractor rusted beside several new Russian counterparts. An elder bystander complained to me that he preferred the U.S. machine, but that Ronald Reagan blocks their import. I could not help but wonder how laid-off International Harvester workers in Rock Island. Illinois or Fort Wayne, Indiana would react if they were aware of this wasted opportunity...