Word: painful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soon suffer a fate that not too many years ago befell a man who resembles him in many ways, Adlai Stevenson. No man of prominence in America represents the Stevenson tradition more faithfully than Senator Fulbright. He speaks out infrequently, and when he does, it appears to pain him greatly. He chooses his phrases carefully, balancing and moderating his assertions as would a conscientious logician. A politician in name only, he seems more the lonely statesman, agonizing over his place in history...
...pending realization of the dream of world order-inevitable. Soldiers in all wars usually manage to make some rueful appraisal of this human dilemma, and the G.I.s in South Viet Nam are no exception. Their catchall comment, endlessly applied to one another's hard-luck stories of great pain or minor difficulty, is a deadpan "Sorry about that...
...foot. The surgeon who discovered DMSO's medicinal properties in 1963, Dr. Stanley W. Jacob, 41, of the University of Oregon, says extravagantly that it has other possible uses too fantastic to disclose. The highly purified, medicinal form of DMSO is not yet on the prescription market, but pain-racked arthritis victims have been paying $3.50 an ounce for bootlegged crude commercial DMSO, which may be dangerous...
After the most thorough study yet made of the drug, with state prison inmates who volunteered for tedious and sometimes painful tests, Dr. Kligman offers some negative findings. DMSO, he says, provides practically no relief for itching or superficial pain. As a germ killer, it is weak "and far inferior to alcohol." It does nothing to promote the healing of clean, simple burns, and it worsened one of ten ultraviolet burns. DMSO also failed to tranquilize any of 20 men in a six-month test. Nevertheless, it has some remarkably beneficial properties...
...long while the pain was real; persistent obscurity, cancellations when his act bombed, endless bouncing from cellar to dive in search of a sympathetic audience. At last he found one. Its name was Steve Allen, who caught Vernon's act in Canada and booked him for his TV show. After Allen came Jack Paar, Ed Sullivan, Hootenanny-and success. Last week Vernon fans gathered at Manhattan's Hotel Plaza to pay homage to their anti-hero-the first stand-up comic to play the staid Persian Room in 41 years...