Word: painful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Looking fit and ruddy-faced, Eisenhower reminisced about his September 1955 heart attack. "One morning at two o'clock I had a pain. The doctors came and gave me something in the arm. I was soon under an oxygen tent. I felt rather amused that this could be happening to me." It was a week before doctors would let Ike even discuss any of the normal work of his office. Said Eisenhower: "When Sherman Adams finally came in, he had some tough ones. They kept the newspapers away from me so I couldn't see what the press...
...German President Heinrich Lübke and Luxembourg's Grand Duchess Charlotte, to begin the four-hour cruise along the Moselle to Trier, across the German border. There, De Gaulle hailed the project as one of "the first fruits" of the recent Franco-German rapprochement. After "so much pain to which this river was a sad witness for centuries," said he, "we have been able to sail down it together, without meeting any resistance except that of ribbons...
...Bond spends what he likes, keeps a stable of cars, fornicates by proxy for six million commuters. He is indifferent to pain (particularly other people's), and is fortunate in one respect: the nearer he gets to the enemy, the more horrible the enemy becomes...
...become too involuted and personal to please Birdland's current customers. The new regime is lively and loud, but it seems as anomalous as presenting harmonica players at the Philharmonic; the old hipsters come to the door, look on in sad disbelief, then wander away. For jazz, the pain of such events is becoming more than merely artistic. "There's a parking lot there now" describes much of the old jazz scene in New York, Chicago and California, and even the best jazz musicians have to scuffle to stay busy. The scene changes from year to year...
...separate suits entered in September, Miss Mercier's mother asked $35,000 for medical expenses and, in Miss Mercier's name, $300,000 for "pain and suffering...