Word: painful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made unrest. Though his Action Popular party and its political allies held only a minority in Congress, Belaúnde cajoled his opponents into grudging cooperation, won passage of a record 460 bills that successfully launched Peru on what he calls "a peaceful revolution without bloodshed or pain...
...With his fat contract in the vault, Namath flew to New York for surgery. He had felt pain mainly around the back and outer side of his knee. But at Manhattan's Hospital for Special Surgery, X rays taken after air and dye had been injected into the joint showed that the main trouble was on the inside. The medial meniscus, one of the two pads of cartilage that lie between the thigh and shinbone (see diagram), was torn and rolled back in a tight wad. This explained why Namath had not been able to straighten his leg completely...
...Nicholas found that a ligament had been pulled and stretched. To shorten and thereby tighten it, he doubled it back on itself and "plicated" (pleated) it with sutures. To be sure that there was nothing wrong with the outside of Namath's knee, where he had had pain, Dr. Nicholas made a second incision and took a careful look. It was in good shape...
...Peninsula. One TV tower collapsed completely, and the rest were shaking so badly that the players looked as though they were dancing the Tahitian hula on millions of home TV screens. ("Sorry, folks," the announcer apologized. "We just can't hold the cameras steady.") Arnie Palmer winced with pain as a cloud of sand from the bunkers blew into his eyes. Tony Lema huddled against his caddy for protection from the pelting rain, and Amateur Robert Hoag was almost blown over backwards by a gust of wind as he addressed his ball for a drive...
...Nathan Jackson fatally shot a pursuing policeman. Shot twice himself, Jackson got to a hospital. There, say detectives, he admitted: "I shot the colored cop. I got the drop on him." At his trial, however, Jackson testified that he had been drugged, refused water, and was in such pain that he could not remember what he said...