Word: pained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spite of his pain ("Oh, I can't stand it! I must die! I must go!" he once cried), the ex-President seemed to have one final ambition at McGregor: to recoup his family's fortune by completing his memoirs.* On sunny days, supported by his black cane ("I scarcely ever use my cane in going about my room," says one note. "Often when I go out, I have to look about for it to find it"), he would struggle out of the house to sit for hours on his porch, poring over his work. Though weak...
...Manhattan's Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases, 36 patients dying of cancers that had spread to their livers were given massive doses of X ray. Doctors found that the subsequent laboratory tests showed no damage to normal tissue, and 28 of the patients were relieved of pain. Liver cancer, say Memorial doctors, need no longer be considered hopeless...
...first he had to break his holiday to make a crowded, one-day round trip to Washington to deliver his foreign policy speech (see above) before the American Society of Newspaper Editors. And on the eve of his departure, he fell prey to that humiliating and painful malady-a severe case of upset stomach. There was no telling exactly what had caused the attack-although it seemed likely it was set off by the savory, highly spiced bass dish the President ate for lunch-but he suffered sharp abdominal pain, and slept little. Next morning, when Mamie bade...
...just after lunch. He seemed hale enough as he walked into the banquet hall at the Statler Hotel, and stood smiling as Hail to the Chief was pumped out by the Marine Band. His voice was strong as he began speaking. But, during the final quarter of his address, pain made him clutch the rostrum with both hands, his face went chalk-white, sweat stood out on his forehead, and his voice almost failed. Fearful of fainting, he omitted whole sentences from his conclusion...
...cross dentists bear is that patients fear and dislike them, a group of psychiatrists told the California State Dental Association. Further conclusions of the psychiatrists: 1) dentists sometimes react to their patients' antagonism by causing them unnecessary pain; 2) just as the man in the chair needs a break now & then to spit, so the dentist needs a break occasionally-to spit or even swear a little, and thus relieve his own tensions...