Word: painful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much longer must the left-handed minority bear the pain of writing their exams in an excrutiatingly unnatural position...
...Total Pain." The dean of ad columnists is the Herald Tribune's Kaselow, 51, who admits: "There's not enough hard news to support a column every day." After twelve years on the Madison Avenue beat, Kaselow nonetheless manages to turn out consistently readable copy. So does the Times's Bart, a graduate of the Wall Street Journal, who took his business savvy with him to the Times. More often, though, the ad columns are pure navel-gazing, a catalogue of account changes and personnel promotions for a tiny fraternity of readers who supply the very items...
...heavy schedule is likely to give Coach Norm Shepard's pitching staff a pain in its fancy earned-run average. Lee Sargent (1 win, no losses, 0.75 E.R.A.), Andy Luther (2-0, 1.38), and Paul del Rossi (3-0, 1.12) probably will start the three games this weekend in one order or another...
Universal Sovereign. In the early years, doctors learned about aspirin from their patients. They prescribed it for rheumatic pains, and patients volunteered the information that it also cured headaches. It has become the universal, sovereign remedy for dropping a fever, and for pain of practically any kind from hangover to cancer. In the rheumatic disorders, aspirin has a double action: it not only eases pain but, by lowering the temperature of inflamed joints and muscles, actually helps to check the disease process itself. It has a similar double action in gout. Aspirin's supremacy as an antirheumatic was threatened...
Some physicians have found evidence that aspirin may literally act like the hormones and stimulate the patient's adrenal glands to work better. A similar added benefit is suspected, but not yet proved, for victims of kidney stones: originally prescribed only to relieve the pain, aspirin may help to keep new stones from forming...