Word: paines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wichita, Kans., laborer could not climb stairs or walk more than a few steps without feeling an exasperating pain in his legs. He did not know it but the arteries leading to his legs were clogged with a fatty cholesterol-like substance-what physicians call an atheroma. But that was the least of his troubles. The deposits were also forming in the neck arteries that feed the brain. If nothing were done, Herman Key was headed for a stroke...
Complaining about the pain in his legs, Key, 54, was referred to Dr. Michael DeBakey, a world-famed vascular surgeon at Houston's Methodist Hospital. During an extensive examination, Dr. DeBakey placed a stethoscope on the right side of Key's neck, heard a telltale sound. To confirm his suspicions, he had an opaque dye injected into Key's bloodstream and an X ray taken; the resulting picture showed constriction from a large atheroma in the right carotid arteries that supply Key's brain...
...brain would be maintained during the operation, removed large gobs of fatty material from the carotids, enlarged both the common and internal carotid arteries still further by suturing a Dacron patch in their walls. Then a week later he removed the atheromas that were causing the sharp pain in Key's legs...
...that something? I never sprained an ankle before. I guess old age is creeping up on me-ten minutes too soon." For Cousy, it was now or never: he knew that his ankle would not hold up if the series went to seven games. Grimacing with pain, he limped back on court-and Boston came alive again...
...still frequently invokes their names ("Mr. John" or "Mr. George"). Chairman Ehrgott's first problem at "the Tea Company," in fact, is to decide whether to move into Mr. John's hallowed office, where a sign on the wall tells him what he is up against: "Ache & Pain Dept...