Word: painful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LAETRILE, an extract from crushed apricot pits that releases minute amounts of cyanide in the body. The drug's propagandists claim that it helps prevent cancer, reduces tumors and relieves pain. Despite the FDA ban, anyone who wants to eat crushed apricot kernels-sometimes sold as "vitamin B17"-can legally buy them in some health-food stores...
...return to his home in Woods Hole, Mass., to write on scientific topics and maintain his political activities. Even though he never fit the institutional mold and eschewed gray flannels for a turtleneck sweater and medallion, Wald has left an indelible mark upon Harvard. He is at times "a pain in the neck to the administration," as one admirer says, but he is still universally respected in spite or because of his politics...
...with 100 children. Reported Halevy: "Their eyes shine when they talk about the Promised Land: 'It is written in the ancient holy books that the first temple will rise and fall, that the second temple will rise and collapse, but the third temple, whose birth will come in pain and struggle, will survive forever. We are building the third temple...
...that resembled nothing so much as a mod four-poster converted into a padded cell for the phantom of the opera. The music built relentlessly, awesomely powered by 72,000 watts worth of amplification -enough to start a medium-sized radio station. The volume never reached the threshold of pain (130 decibels), but it was, in Salmon's words, "enough to peel an apple ten feet...
Women came to running more slowly and shyly than men. They were even less accustomed than men to the pain of exercise. Breasts jounced and drew hoots from male motorists. The all-important running one-handed noseblow, a maneuver performed without Kleenex, was unladylike. When Judy Sanford, 33, a Houston housewife, began jogging a few years ago, she did it inside her house. She reckoned 73 laps to the mile, and says that she changed direction every ten laps to keep from getting dizzy. Now she runs three miles a day through the streets, wearing a headset radio to keep...