Word: pained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beside the tent flap, the recording of pain went on. The officer in charge dragged heavily on a cigarette and squinted bloodshot eyes against the light...
...political parties-including the Communists-had agreed to confer about ways & means of unifying China. Marshall's directive said that the unification should be built around Chiang, and all Communist armies folded into his. It also provided that Chiang was to be pressured into making concessions too, on pain of losing economic and military aid from the U.S. A big meeting in Chungking had been agreed upon before Marshall got there, just before Christmas, 1945. Marshall had two weeks in which to persuade Nationalists and Communists to quit shooting at each other before sitting down together; he arranged...
...shots. Says he: "Those shots lowered my resistance. I was sent off to Fort Leonard Wood not feeling too good." At the Missouri camp he soon began to make regular appearances at sick call. The medics tested his eyes, ordered glasses for him. Amborski complained of low back pain, but they could find nothing wrong with his back. His appetite fell off. He went back to the dispensary complaining of diarrhea. The corpsmen gave him bismuth cocktails. Stanley wrote to his father: "Get me out of here, Dad. I'm going to fall dead soon...
...brain cancer; of six cases treated, only one has died. More apparent is the effect of the betatron's massive doses of high-voltage X rays on a less common malignancy called Pancoast's tumor. This type of cancer eats away the ribs and causes agonizing pain. Both the patients treated got quick relief from pain and they are now back at work. Their affected ribs have grown back...
Young Danny had an abscessed ear, and to ease the pain a doctor in St. Joseph, Missouri gave him morphine. Danny had been an insecure, troubled child longer than he could remember-both his mother & father died before he was five. At 16, Danny knew nothing about psychology, but he knew that the "shot" gave him a lift. From a peddler he got morphine regularly for six months; then he lost his contact and could get no more. He became weak, nauseated, sweaty, shaky and depressed. Danny was sent to a state hospital...