Word: painful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...command of himself and his audience was forceful, sure, and accented by a remarkable candor. Only once did he hesitate-when recalling how he felt after his operation. "You must remember," he said, "I was in . . ." Then, rejecting the next, obvious word-pain-Eisenhower continued with combat-tested detachment: "I was having a pretty rough ride there for two or three days, [but] from that day on, I have improved every day." His insistence on candor took him farther. "Now," he observed wryly, "I feel good," but not as "well as I did a year ago at this time...
...Eulogized, for two hours, one of its favorite members: Colorado's Eugene Millikin, who, pain-racked with rheumatoid arthritis, announced that he would not run for reelection. Quick-witted and penetrating despite the physical ailments that confine him to a wheelchair, Gene Millikin, 65, made his decision after meeting with two Colorado backers who gently assured him that his waning strength would certainly impede the predictably close senatorial race in Colorado...
...product, triiodothyronine. Of 26 patients who got the "T3" in an ointment within two to four weeks after damaging radiation, 22 showed a good to excellent response; in two it was only fair, and two had to give up because of allergic reactions. All 26 reported immediate relief of pain...
...very real pain that follows many operations, and for the kind that so often bedevils the cancer victim, the experts agree that the best drugs are those of the morphine and methadone families. And the necessary doses can often be reduced by combining them with chlorpromazine. But because of addiction problems, the ideal drug to kill pain remains as elusive as the definition of pain itself...
...stubbed little toe-the result of indulging in the unusual pastime of trying to place-kick a hefty chunk of cinder block-caused University of Washington Sophomore Anne Quast, 18, considerable pain, but she limped through the 36-hole final of the women's Western amateur championship at the Guyan Country Club in Huntington, W. Va. to beat Defending Champion Pat Lesser...