Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fellow runner of exhaustion. "Tremendous fatigue often occurs prior to a heart attack," says Sheehan. More important, Fixx told his family that he felt a tightness in his throat while running. This, says Winslow, was probably angina, a telltale sign of coronary trouble. Though commonly described as a gripping pain in the chest, angina can occur anywhere from the nose to the navel. Usually it occurs in the same place and disappears when physical activity stops. "Tightness" and "heaviness," says Winslow, "are two of the most common descriptions of angina...
...pancakes at a time," he says. "Then I walk about ten blocks and have to stop some place to eat." A roofer's son, one of six children who grew up in Brooklyn's grim Bedford-Stuyvesant ghetto, Breland never found boxing particularly fearsome. "I like pain," he says breezily. "Before a fight, I am so hyped up I just want to bust. Everything boils...
...pentathlon is the ultimate competition. Not in any other competition do you find such diversity. The decathlon is all track-and-field-related, but in the pentathlon you're fencing, riding, swimming, running, shooting. Not only does it require power, speed, strategy and the ability to endure pain, but it also requires tremendous mental control. In a sense, the modern pentathlon is the greatest training you can do in life...
...should be carefully noted," the newspaper further advised, "that rush-hour traffic into and out of Los Angeles is very much a part of the city; learning to accept this fact will ease some of the pain, for there is no getting around it: between the hours of 7 and 9 a.m. and 3:30 and 6 p.m., you will be 'stuck' if you happen to be in the wrong place." The local driver, according to the Times, "is professional, coldblooded, and no-room-for-error. As long as no one errs, the flow of traffic is rapid...
What his personal history has cost Skvorecky, only he can measure. But in the process of recording his pain he lends a keen zest to the act of living and writing. So this is what the novel has been! So this is what the novel can still be! Readers for whom contemporary fiction has meant obligatory searches for self-fulfillment or another go-around at suburban malaise may never be the same...