Word: painful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broken left arm in a plaster cast was supported by a sort of wicker basket which, when he reached the rostrum, he rested on the plush pedestal. The entire Chamber, including the Communist Deputies, rose and cheered not Flandin the Premier but Flandin the Frenchman who bravely defied physical pain to do his duty...
...with Pain shall hang in hock...
...unless they load themselves with spinach and other sources of Vitamin C. One of the diseases is rheumatic fever, dread disease which sometimes leaves the hearts of children so leaky that all the rest of their lives they must avoid exertion. The other disease is rheumatoid arthritis (swelling and pain in the joints, particularly in the knees, elbows, wrists). That streptococci most probably cause rheumatic fever has long been suspected. Dr. Charles William Wainwright of Baltimore offered evidence that the streptococcus also is responsible for rheumatism in the joints. In any case children who eat spinach diligently will probably escape...
Pennsylvania, ruled Relief Administrator Hopkins last week, could henceforth share its $20,000,000-per-month relief bill with the Federal Government or it would get no more Government allotments. "Pennsylvania," snapped he, "gives me a pain in the neck. I've been fooling around with it for months. It's one of the richest States in the Union. Everybody admits they can put up the money. Even the City of Brotherly Love never put up a dime. I don't care how Pennsylvania gets the money, but I'm through until it does...
Twelve miles from the finish, his feet began to blister. Eleven miles farther on, he was overcome by nausea, stopped twice to vomit. Neither of these mishaps last week seriously inconvenienced Runner John Adelbert Kelley, who regarded them as incidental to an afternoon of sport. The pain of the blisters caused him to hurry into first place. A few minutes after becoming violently sick, a little more than two and a half hours after he had started, he crossed the finish line in last week's Boston A. A. Marathon, winner by a quarter-mile. With feet much...