Word: painful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...electrical means, without pain...
Shortly thereafter sailors began to acquire skin pictures in foreign ports. It was thought that a seaman who could stand the pain of having a full-rigged ship tattooed on himself would automatically make a good topman. By the late 19th century Japan had come to be considered the chief home of the art. Aristocrats from around the globe visited the studio of one Hori Chyo, in Yokohama, to obtain such delicate decorations as a fool-the-eye fly tattooed on the hand. London's Sutherland Macdonald was the first European practitioner of any pretensions; among other designs...
Herter's face is boyish, and he looks tanned and fit, but the breakneck pace of his official duties is a special strain because he suffers painfully from arthritis which is slowly stiffening his hips. Twice weekly he submits to the ministrations of a masseuse, and he keeps a bottle of Bufferin handy for use when the pain becomes too intense. The arthritis is degenerative, though cortisone and Terramycin have slowed its progress...
...other works: the Harvey S. Firestone Memorial in Akron), the statue's well-meant but uninspired aping of classic works will irritate those who prize imagination as well as those who demand safe realism. DeLue's explanation: "I designed the figure as a spirit rising over the pain and toil of battle. This figure represents the triumph of the spirit over death...
...Claude E. Forkner, no cancer specialist but an internist. Using the name Howard Roberts Jr., Taft entered Manhattan's topnotch New York Hospital, right across the street from Memorial. Specialists from Memorial consulted with New York's staff. Taft received X-ray treatments which relieved the pain in his hip, and transfusions to combat anemia. To find out whether something more could be done, the doctors recommended an exploratory operation...