Word: painful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Painful Dentists. Dentistry, says Harlem Hospital's Dr. Jules Weinstein, may offer more scope for hypnosis than any other branch of medicine, because 1) nearly all dental operations are painful; 2) the patient usually has to go back for more; and 3) "dentistry retains the taint and stigma of its early . . . crude and torturing methods." But patients who can get by without hypnosis should not have it, says Dr. Weinstein; it should be reserved for those who feel that they need it because they cannot face up to the pain of even routine dental work, and for others...
...large portion of the book Saroyan's prose stands out against the anguish of the situation, making the pain of his characters terrible in its poignancy. It is unfortunate that it must all sink in the bog of his plot...
...downtown arteries-grew almost unbearable. By 1947, its regular morning and evening attacks were getting progressively worse, and it had exhausted all the known home remedies. In despair it hired a greying, bucktoothed police captain from Flint, Mich, named Henry W. ("Hank") Barnes and asked him to administer some pain killer...
...Hound of Heaven. Much of his day he spent, half-comatose, in bed. When he went out of the house "a stranger figure . . . was not to be seen in London. Gentle in looks, half wild in externals, his face worn by pain and the fierce reactions of laudanum, his hair and straggling beard neglected, he had yet a distinction and aloofness." On the hottest day he wore a huge brown cape and a "disastrous hat"; round his shoulders was slung a fishing creel, in which he placed the books he was given to review. The total effect was that...
...visit bandleaders and coax or coerce a performance out of them. If he could get a song on Kate Smith's radio program he had done a good week's work. His pitch might run from "Please play this song-if only to ease the pain of my ulcers" to "What prizefight or show would you like to see?" Although such a plugger was usually no musician, he was blood brother to the tired-looking gent behind music-store counters, pumping out sheet music on the piano...