Word: painful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last Instruction. The cops found the house unrobbed and untouched, and no sure clue as to how the housebreaker had come or gone. The Nimers were conscious but in pain. One policeman tried to raise Melvin's head from the kitchen floor; gently, Melvin ordered him not to, and braced his feet against a wall to ease his agony. While being carried to an ambulance on a stretcher, Loujean opened her eyes. Said she to a policeman: "Please feed the baby plain milk. No formula...
...satisfactory palliation . . . After all other forms of treatment have been given up, as much as three years in some cases have been added to the duration of life. During that three years there was relatively good health and many were in a good state of nutrition, without symptoms or pain; most of them were able to do their usual work." One of the most consistently predictable benefits, he said, was relief of pain from bone cancer. In some cases. Dr. Murray went so far as to describe patients' improvement as "spectacular." But he warned that some patients have sensitivity...
...money he earned, and when a new generation cramped his country style, he was broke all the time. In 1950 he became a janitor at Iowa State College for $1.10 an hour. He made a comeback on the European jazz circuit, but last year he came home with a pain in his chest. In an operation to remove a lung cancer, Big Bill's vocal cords were damaged, and the full, gentle voice was reduced to a whisper. Last May he went under the knife once more, for a brain tumor, and he never sang again...
...plenty of theatricality, but much less real theater. By the time Menotti came to the end of his third act, he was faced with the eternal creative problem-how to sign and sing off. Instead of boldness, he chose a nicely cathartic murder in which nobody suffered real pain...
...simple tale, Old Pro Jean Gabin plays a weary, health-broken physician who moves to a tiny mountain village in the South of France to live out his years. With him he brings his conviction, gained from years of work in the slums of Paris, that much of the pain and fear of childbirth can be eliminated with proper psychological and physical training. In return, he gets only scorn and a Greek chorus of old wives' tales-for example, if a pregnant woman crosses her legs, she will strangle her child with the umbilical cord. His one believer...