Word: painful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Serious problems accompany this tryst, however, as the still maiden Candy is disturbed to find that giving is not really a great sacrifice: "when the gardener's hand closed on her pelvis and into the damp, she stiffened slightly: she was quite prepared to undergo pain for him...but pleasure--she was not sure how that could be a part of the general picture." Even more disturbing, Daddy barges into the room just as the "gardener would have entered her...with a terrible thrust to the hilt, so to speak...
...years, and when she is not using it professionally her hair reaches past her waist. Her mother binds it. "She knows just how to make the knot, but I don't," says Chrys. "It's her secret." Does it hurt? "Yes, but you get used to the pain." Does she do anything special to lessen the strain? "I eat vitamin pills-A and B-and I brush my hair a lot," she says. "And I wash it once a week like everybody else." What kind of shampoo? "That's another secret...
...David Ogilvy did not find advertising columnists so odious in his recent book, Confessions of an Advertising Man, as he did in your article-"They are a perfect total pain in the bum . . ." [April...
...measles lead to pneumonia or brain inflammation. But it may occasionally be fatal. Last week three children's deaths associated with the current epidemic had been reported from Chicago, and a Connecticut teen-ager had died of encephalitis. Less predictable and less understood is a complication among adults: pain in the joints, sometimes so severe that it is compared with that of rheumatoid arthritis, though it lasts only three to seven days...
...lights in the White House, a lot of businessmen decided that he was the kind of man who would understand their problem. So they began deluging him with letters asking that the Government also try to economize on the forms and questionnaires that they must deal with (sometimes under pain of stiff penalties). They read their man right. President Johnson has declared war on excessive paperwork for businessmen, promising to simplify reports and eliminate them when possible. The first progress report is expected to reach the White House shortly after June 1, and by year's end Johnson hopes...