Word: paines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Every time I tried to walk, I experienced a sharp pain in my back. The Hygiene Department diagnosed my trouble as a muscle sprain and recommended and provided massage. When the massage had no effect, I went to my own doctor. He took one brief look at my back--unaccompanied by X-ray or apparatus--and announced that I had dislocated a bone in my back. Putting it back in place was a relatively simple operation and eliminated the pain. He was amazed that any doctor could have examined me and failed to see what was wrong...
conversion. Not to be confused with the religious term. A symptom of mental sickness: an unfulfilled, unconscious desire causes a bodily ache, pain, etc. (e.g., an upset stomach because of a disappointment in love...
...read your review of The Lost Art of Profanity [TIME, Sept. 27] with a sensation of pain and disappointment. Was it not enough that the devil should get in his lick with the author? Must the satanic literary abnormalities of Burges Johnson and Henry Mencken be flaunted by TIME? . . . PAULINE B. WHITE Lancaster...
...Disturb. It was in Missouri that the bursitis attacked the candidate, the pain centering in his right shoulder. He applied a hot water bottle, failed to take Mrs. Dewey's advice to rub oil on his skin, and ended up with a burn...
...once appeared downtown in shorts. Some of the alumni looked askance at him: he was critical of fraternities and intercollegiate sports. And to some of Olivet's 17-man board of trustees, Akeley's self-admitted "general disposition to be critical" about college affairs was a stiff pain in the neck...