Word: pained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's Queen, said the young English nobleman firmly, presents to the public the personality of "a priggish schoolgirl, captain of the hockey team, a prefect, and a recent candidate for confirmation"; her manner is that of a debutante, her speaking style is "a pain in the neck"; her court is outmoded; and those who surround her "are almost without exception of the 'tweedy' sort...
...patient, a male nurse, was only 29 when a doctor told him to take sodium bicarbonate routinely for his duodenal ulcer. He did so with a vengeance: even when he had no pain, he took 2 lbs. a week, managed to consume almost 1½ tons in 27 years, until he came to Dr. Melrose's attention. Then, in hospital because of a stroke, he was denied bicarbonate. "This at once produced a violent emotional reaction," reported Dr. Melrose, "and he became restless, aggressive and difficult to handle." The doctors decided to taper him off, gave him successively smaller...
Myrna Ann Tubby, 3, a Choctaw papoose from the reservation at Philadelphia, Miss., was as slack as a rag doll when she was admitted to the Mississippi Medical Center at Jackson. She was completely paralyzed, she did not cry and probably could not have done so even if in pain...
...farm and planted it to cotton. This fall, when he harvests his crop, he will have to pay a penalty of 18½? per Ib. for growing cotton without an allotment. But even if the penalty amounts to $800,000 as it may, Farmer Harris will feel no pain. A fair-to-middling crop will likely yield him $1,200,000, plus his soil bank payments, or a profit of $600,000. Harris also has a 2,000-acre cotton patch near Fresno and a 1,000-acre field near Phoenix, both eligible for full price supports...
Reached last night in Chocorua, N. H., Hoadley explained that he was five years from retirement age and that "since Leverett is to be rebuilt, it seems wise to leave the pain and pleasure of that job to my successor...