Word: pained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pain. Barkley's candidacy and withdrawal will not damage the widespread affection in which he is held. His age has only mellowed the robust geniality that has always been his political stock in trade. He combines a strong Methodist sense of personal honesty, loyalty and principles with a belief that U.S. politics is a process of compromise rather than an instrument of doctrinaire philosophy or a weapon of personal ambition. And he discovered early in the game that a sense of humor could ease the process for everybody, including Alben Barkley...
They dropped cautiously downward next day, picking up Susan at base camp, and continuing until Broennimann's pain-racked feet would take him no farther. Marx rushed on for help; the Broennimanns huddled together four days and nights through a raging blizzard. Marcus feared that his feet might have to be cut off. But last week, carried to a hacienda at the foot of Salcantay, Broennimann was resting with the comforting assurance from a local doctor that amputation would not be necessary...
...Venice and ride in a gondola. A few of them will go to see Venice's 26th biennial exhibition, one of the biggest contemporary art shows ever staged. It has been characterized as a cornucopia of riches (more than 3,000 entries from 27 nations), and as a pain in the craning neck. The riches are there, and it takes craning to find them...
Braz rambles a good bit. He often seems more interested in chewing his philosophical cud than in telling his story. He will drop everything else for an epigram. Samples: "We kill time; time buries us." "One endures with patience the pain in the other fellow's stomach." From his ghost world, he sums up his life on earth as a zero. He has one" satisfaction: "I had no progeny, I transmitted to no one the legacy of our misery." That, Braz figures, makes him a "small winner...
...Marsilid, one of the isoniazed* drugs now being widely tested against T.B., may be useful for a lot of other things, three New York City doctors reported in London. They found that it relieves pain, and can be used as a substitute for narcotics in some advanced cases of cancer. It is also being tried on narcotic addicts to ease withdrawal symptoms...