Word: painful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After four hours of shooting, the city had turned into a festival of pain. Street marshals of the revolutionary movement stopped cars to beg for blood donations. Emergency vehicles careered through the streets with horns blaring. Every pharmacy in town was searched for cotton wool and bandages. People by the thousands answered the call for supplies and rushed to the hospital with clean sheets, blankets and blood. Requests for antiseptics seemed to reach Tehranis faster than one of Prime Minister Bakhtiar's broadcasts...
...Bertagna, Canterbury treasurer and women's hockey coach, proposed Worsley for membership in the previously all-male bastion. "She's a Harvard goaltender, and that's the only prerequisite for membership," says Bertagna. "Besides, she has to go through the same pain, pressure, and responsibility that we faced in the twines...
...volunteers at PBH experience both exhilaration and pain in the course of their work...
...like Vladimir Semyonov, 67, with whom Warnke dealt, the Soviet Union seemed a miracle that they do not want scorched or disfigured. Semyonov was a boy during the Revolution, lived through the Stalin terror, survived World War II. Warnke decided that this kind of pain is not habit forming in such...
...There is consistent evidence that marijuana does inhibit vomiting and facilitates sleep," George Goldstein, secretary of the state Health and Environment department, said yesterday. "There is some literature indicating that it also relieves pain," he added...