Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...generally / leaves no lasting effects, though many continue to harbor the bacteria and can infect their sexual partners. In women, the bacteria may travel through the uterus into the fallopian tubes, which become inflamed and eventually scarred. While the infection in some cases causes severe lower abdominal pain, thus sending a clear danger signal, the symptoms in other women are barely noticeable. Many of these women remain unaware of their infection. Only after trying unsuccessfully to become pregnant do they discover that their fallopian tubes have been blocked by scar tissue...
...Then, although the women do not regard such ceremonies as Eucharists, they passed a loaf of French bread and two pottery mugs of wine. "We share this wine now," one of them prayed, "knowing that we are walking with a lot of people in their lives of joy and pain...
Though billed as an herbal, low-tobacco substitute for regular cigarettes, kreteks actually contain 60% tobacco and at least as much tar and nicotine as regular cigarettes. They also contain eugenol, a natural anesthetic found in cloves. Although eugenol has long been used by dentists to relieve pain, "no one knows what happens when it is burned," says Dr. Tee Guidotti, professor of occupational medicine at the University of Alberta in Edmonton...
...misery" was overwhelming. The final lines of Dover Beach are racked with disillusionment about a "world which seems/ To lie before us like a land of dreams,/ So various, so beautiful, so new," but that had "neither joy, nor love, nor light,/ Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain." The only way to survive what Arnold in another poem called "this strange disease of modern life" was for people to "be true to one another" ("I've got you, baby./ You've got me"). He pledged constancy to the woman near...
...Beach, however, it may yet have bearing on the right one. The world does not look as unremittingly bleak as Arnold painted it in those final lines of Dover Beach (How could it?), but it often can feel that bleak--minus joy, love, light, certitude, peace and help for pain. As yet, no industry has disinvented poverty or starvation. And one advanced invention threatens to turn the earth into a polar waste. Even if most people learn to adjust to machines or the new science without the loss of human feeling, that hardly seems the cure for the fearfulness...