Word: painful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Maryland, where a half-gallon oi whisky sells for about one-third less Pennsylvania officials complain that out-of-state purchases cost the Pennsylvania treasury some $25 million a year in lost revenues, but the hefty profit ($151 million last year) that the Liquor Contro" Board turns eases the pain...
Medicine's most powerful weapons against pain are the opiates, substances such as heroin and morphine that are derived from opium. But only in the past few years have scientists understood why and how the human body responds to these drugs from the poppy plant. For contributing to that understanding, three men last week won the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation's prestigious Basic Medical Research Award...
...nerves of the brain and spinal cord contain specific sites to which opiates must bind in order to produce their effect. Morphine and similar drugs fit into these so-called opiate receptors like a key into a lock. Once in the lock, the drugs are able to dampen pain signals to the brain. Snyder then went on to map the distribution of the receptors in the brain. Kosterlitz and Hughes expanded on the research. They wondered why the body should evolve receptors for foreign narcotics; perhaps the body produced its own opiates. In 1975 they discovered and isolated two such...
Harvard wrestlers dropped their season opener yesterday at Amherst, but impressive individual performances by grapplers Tony Cimmarusti, Paul Wiederman and Bill Mulvihill eased the pain of the double defeat at the hands of UMass...
...ignites the affair in Scene 9, Jerry says to Emma, "I should have had you, in your white, before the wedding." Lust will find a way. Jerry rents a place in the country, and the pair make love in the afternoons. But joy is applied like a cosmetic, and pain is masked in a clipped orgy of understatement...