Word: painful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President makes no secret of the fact that he is furious at leaks of any kind; because of them, he has postponed appointments, even changed programs. Members of his staff, sworn to silence on pain of presidential wrath, know better than to be seen chatting with a newsman. The press feud has culminated, noted Columnist Joe Alsop, in an "almost hysterical secretiveness which the Johnson Administration has been carrying to extremes quite unimagined in any previous American Government...
Freedom from Pain. Recent burn therapy has been so unsatisfactory that Dr. Moyer and Dr. William Monafo were seeking some agent to act as a barrier against the invasion of burned skin by bacteria. Silver nitrate, they knew, would do the job, but in the 5% to 10% concentrations formerly used, it would also burn healthy skin. They wondered whether a weaker solution would work. At 1%, it worked but it still burned skin. Without much hope of success they switched to the greater dilution...
What the patients appreciated first of all was relative freedom from pain and fever. Then they were relieved to find that they did not need to make that dreaded trip to the operating room for skin grafting. What little grafting they needed was done at the bedside and was virtually painless, even without anesthesia. Finally, doctors and patients alike could watch the wounds heal with a minimum of scarring (except where the burn had penetrated deep into the flesh) or deformities...
...sleeping bags. One gust ripped the tent off Bonatti's head, and tiny slivers of ice, sharp as thumbtacks, dug at his eyes. "I found myself at 13,000 feet in a terrible position," Bonatti said later. His face was rimmed with ice, and he was in excruciating pain. "But we all three had to remain absolutely immobile, because the slightest movement could have been fatal...
...crutch and cast are notorious aftermaths of the ski weekend. Not only pain and inconvenience result for the individual concerned, but also he often is unable to participate in his favorite winter sport until next season...