Word: painful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That the Indianapolis torture-murder [May 6] was described in agonizing detail, and that I, and millions of others, ate up every gory word, attests to the latent sado-masochism in all of us: everyone is a latent Mrs. Baniszewski, who can experience pleasure in giving pain, or a Sylvia Likens, who can enjoy being burned, beaten and humiliated...
...patient, staying overnight in Walter Reed Hospital for a routine early-morning checkup, swung his legs from under the covers to get up. Drowsy and unaccustomed to the high hospital bed, Everett Dirksen went sprawling onto the vinyl floor of his third-floor V.I.P. suite, instantly felt a pain shoot along his hip. The diagnosis: a fracture of the right femur...
...like Minerva, full armed from the head of Jove. She had a mother, and the bitter title of her book was a nursing nun's obituary of Mme. de Beauvoir, who died of cancer, saying, "I'm too tired to pray: God is kind." It is a painful book to read, not least because the reader is unsure to the end whether natural piety toward the author's mother will prevail against her severe atheist principles. Mother was 77, "of an age to die," when she was attacked by severe abdominal pain, but nothing, it seems...
...Member of the Funeral. The reader is amazed at her amazement. The rest of the book is a merciless record of the trivia of death-old age and bed wetting, pubic baldness, enemas, Levin tubes, indignity, pain-all made tolerable because it also sets down the stages by which this renowned intellectual prig came to terms with her natural feelings and at the end allowed herself tears at a Catholic funeral, without even sneering at the priest beyond pointing out that he had trousers on under his chasuble. It acknowledges: "I did not understand that one might sincerely weep...
...Navy researchers found still more surprising was that the 10-to-30-cigarettes-a-day women had fewer incidents of the mysterious condition called "the toxemia of pregnancy." Early symptoms of this trouble are usually rising blood pressure, rapid weight gain and headache, followed by urinary difficulties and abdominal pain. This stage is "pre-eclampsia." The later stage of true eclampsia involves convulsions and threatens the lives of mother and child. Both the moderate and severe forms were less common among smoking than among nonsmoking mothers. Why? The Navy doctors went back to their delivery rooms without hazarding a guess...