Word: lumbago
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...first time in his record-breaking 48 years as a member of the House of Representatives and his 17 years as its Speaker, Texan Sam Rayburn last week was obviously and admittedly ailing. Racked by lumbago, he was unable to sleep or eat, had lost 15 Ibs. and showed...
...Healing Ointment, it was "for Man and Beast." Clark Stanley's Snake Oil Liniment was promoted by the slaughter of hundreds of rattlesnakes at the Chicago World's Fair, but contained no rattlesnake oil. "Used external only," it was for "rheumatism, neuralgia, sciatica, lame back, lumbago, contracted muscles, frost bites, chill blains, bruises, and sore throat...
...most illustrious painters: William Dobell, 60. whose bold, imaginative style has won him the New South Wales National Art Gallery's Archibald Prize for portraiture three times. Painter Dobell found Prime Minister Menzies a "good sitter," reports that they chatted about friends, other artists and a mutual lumbago during their sketching sessions. Viewing the finished product, a friend remarked that Dobell had captured Menzies' "supercilious look." "No," corrected Dobell, "I've got his disdain-for-critics look." Gruffed Menzies himself: "I see you've got my damned chins...
...Explanation. In Paris French Premier Felix Gaillard, apparently unfazed by the disaffection of one of France's few remaining supporters in North Africa, promptly made matters worse. Racked by lumbago, Gaillard painfully hauled himself to the National Assembly, won his tenth vote of confidence (286 to 147) by promising to pursue the Algerian war with relentless vigor and to dispatch 28,000 more French troops to join the 500,000 already fighting the Algerian rebels. While he politicked, Gaillard left U.S. Trouble-shooter Robert Murphy and Britain's Harold Beeley cooling their heels, thus deliberately stalling their "good...
There were, of course, a few unavoidable absences. Marshal Georgy Zhukov was nowhere to be seen, and Yugoslavia's Marshal Josip Broz Tito, suffering from a case of lumbago aggravated by the ticklishness of his international position, stayed at home in Belgrade. But to show how civilized the Soviet state has become, the audience even included three discredited Khrushchev foes-Georgy Malenkov, Dmitry Shepilov and Lazar Kaganovich (who, when asked about his present work, replied: "That would be very difficult to explain just now"). On the dais, clustered around Red China's Mao Tse-tung, sat the leaders...