Word: painful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Americans who seldom live in one place long enough to consider it home. They either have trouble finding a new church where the services are familiar or purposely avoid making any deep community ties. Explained a highly mobile executive in California: "We've discovered that to prevent the pain of saying goodbye, we don't say hello any more...
This new strictness with bursar's cards is a major league pain in the keister (especially when your sweatpants have no pockets) and could be easily alleviated by having a student directory at the monitor's cage. Since the monitors aren't doing anything constructive with their time now since the Harvard White Towel Embargo, they could use the same procedure as the libraries use when someone forgets his or her card...
Generations of G.I.s have learned to use the bowl-shaped M1 combat helmet as a hammer for tent stakes, a shaving basin and a stew pot -as well as, of course, a means of protection. But the old "wobble pot" is also literally a pain in the neck. It comes in only one size (with adjustable liner), feels like a ton (actual weight: 3 Ibs. 4 oz.) and a soldier has to hold it on when he runs. At last, relief is in sight. The U.S. Army Research and Development Command at Natick, Mass., is field-testing a new design...
...Baretta telling his victim, "I've broken a lot of necks in my time. I'm glad you know it. It will make it better." On advertising, T.A.T. presents the classic (though now changed) commercial in which David Janssen mumbles that doctors' studies favor Excedrin for "pain other than headache" and later concludes, "the next time you have a headache, try Excedrin...
Romantic love was introduced to Western culture by late 11th century troubadours. Since then the telltale symptoms -pain of longing, wide-eyed idealization of the beloved and vibrato of the soul -have become established as the preferred form of sexual attraction. Now, however, it may be nearing the end of its 900-year run. According to a Michigan State University psychologist, romantic love is dying out. Claims Professor G. Marian Kinget: "One is bound to conclude that the very conditions for romantic love have ceased to exist...