Word: painful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hand, accepts his visions of the Virgin and Child with the same simplicity and sureness as he does the goodness of being alive: doubt could not arise in his mind with regard to either. It is between these two pure extremes that the knight, Max von Sydow, agonizes, the pain of his struggle exacerbated by the other forms in which faith presents itself: as terrified fanaticism in the monks and soldiers--in the flagellants, as a masochistic disease...
...Food angina can be equally bad: some patients, accustomed to pain after eating, develop a conditioned reflex so that the mere sight of food produces an attack; some, from fear of the pain, starve themselves into another kind of illness. ¶ Physicians can induce angina if, instead of relieving angina worries, they give the patient an exaggerated idea of the gravity of his condition. An electrocardiographic test or the sight of the consulting room may touch off an attack. "Treatment," says Dr. Briggs, loyal to his profession, "is very difficult...
Angina and pain are inseparable in the layman's mind. But to complete the confusion, Dr. Briggs lists a paradoxical angina sine dolore-angina without pain. The victim feels generally distressed and may get the sweats. Treatment is the same as for the viselike attacks: a tablet of nitroglycerin and rest...
...independent manufacturer at a competitive disadvantage with Detroit's Big Three automakers? Not at all, answered Chairman Robert F. Black of White Motor Co. last week, as he presented the best possible evidence that his company, the nation's oldest truckmaking firm, is feeling no pain from G.M., Ford or Chrysler competition. On a record $270 million in sales, White earned $6.95 per share in 1958, almost the highest profit in its 59-year-old trucking history, in a year when overall truck sales dropped 18%. Of the profits, $3 per share were racked up in the final...
...last novel was The Captive and the Free. It is unmistakably incomplete, but unmistakably Cary. What he said in it, imperfectly through his pain, is that some people are larger than life and will not or cannot be bound by common constraints. These are the free; those who run with the herd are captives. And Cary also said that there is more than one road to God, though no road is easy...