Word: painful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...afternoon in 1953, as she was playing volley ball in the schoolyard, Bernadete fell, giving her right elbow a nasty crack on the pavement. X rays showed a simple fracture, but the pain grew worse until last year, when a surgeon operated twice to remove tumors. When she failed to recover after the second operation, she was moved to the sparsely equipped, twelve-bed cancer hospital in the coastal city of Recife, where Dr. Valdemir Lopez, the hospital's director, found that a form of cancer (osteosarcoma) had spread from her arm to her right lung. He told...
...Sudden Pain. But the city's Medical Examiner Melville Aston was not so curious as Brunt: he had already agreed to release the body, without an autopsy, thus ending his interest in the case. His lack of interest was due to the fact that the Silvers' family physician had assured him that the girl had suffered from an allergy, and he would get a letter from the allergist setting this forth. To the allergist who had been treating her, the family physician explained that Doris had been "suddenly taken with an acute pain in the chest and within...
...height of his career tragedy struck. Today most historians diagnose his disease as leprosy. As his toes and fingers began to wither, he is said to have struck several of them off in paroxysms of pain and rage. To hide his inflamed eyelids and grotesque face, he wore an engulfing hood and broad-brimmed hat. When he could no longer walk, he was carried about on the broad back of his slave Januario. To shut out the world's curious, derisive stare, he rigged a tent around him as he worked. Once the governor of Minas Gerais dared stick...
...genius, but not knowing what to be a genius about. A tavern brawl gave him his cue. A Sunday drinker clobbered another over the scalp with a quartern tankard. In 18th century terms it was a "laughable subject," what with the man all bloody and grimacing with pain. Hogarth made a sketch that delighted his fellow apprentices, and thus he found his life work. He could do this stuff on copper, and copperplate prints of current events were the picture magazines...
...right wrist a second time, late in 1950, while making a relatively mild 20-g deceleration to test a harness while sitting on a seat-pack parachute. The quick stop threw him forward, the weight of his body thrust against his palms where they rested on handholds. "A severe pain was felt [in] the right forearm," wrote Stapp in his report. "The right wrist had been taped with adhesive because of a previous fracture . . . This tape burst . . . The pain in the coccyx and sacrum sprained in previous runs was renewed...