Word: painful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South American nations that had wangled the peace protocol and had just accepted President Roosevelt's invitation to a great Pan-American Peace Conference in Buenos Aires, Colonel Franco was last week a piercing pain in the neck...
...Woburn's Charles Choate Memorial Hospital day after the Lowell mishap, Dr. Thomas Francis Halpin, 31, with three nurses assisting, was in process of delivering a baby by means of forceps. He became aware of a severe headache, a sharp pain in his chest. He turned to one nurse, saw her drop unconscious to the floor. Just then a second nurse also dropped unconscious. The third nurse reeled to the double doors of the tightly closed obstetrical room, pushed them open, released a flood of carbon monoxide gas developed by a defective, gas-heated sterilizer. Refreshed, Dr. Halpin completed...
Five years ago last month a slender, waxen-faced woman of 45 lay ill with pleurisy in a hotel room in The Hague. A sedative had been given to spare her pain. Quietly, as if entranced, she spoke to her maid: "Marguerite! My swan costume!" As if she were hearing an unseen orchestra, Anna Pavlova lifted her arms, fluttered her hands. "Play that last measure softly," she murmured. And before the world realized that she was seriously ill the great Russian dancer was dead...
...neck, breaks up new bone formations which press upon nerves, relieves spasms in the neck muscles and enables patients to walk with their heads held nimbly up. Too orthodox and young a doctor to criticize his medical colleagues forthrightly, Dr. Hantlig sassed them obliquely: "Such cases [of pain in the neck] are frequent and they represent in all probability a substantial proportion of the patients who migrate to chiropractors and others after they have been baked at length for arthritis of the shoulder. . . . Some of the commonly called neuritis in elderly people is probably on this basis. The recognition...
...Digges) circled his sheep pasture with woven-wire fence, hog-tight, bull-strong, and horse-high, Spring held him for an enemy although his own son Benjy (Eric Linden) loved the interloper's daughter, Camden (Maureen O'Sullivan). One night of good hunting, a dog's pain-yip in the dark and a trail of Bugle Ann's footsteps stopping at the interloper's gate made Spring feel that his neighbor had killed his lady. Therefore he killed the interloper with a bullet from his lever-action Winchester and was unmoved when they sent...