Word: painful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President Vest has been very responsive. When any president has to tell parents that their child died it has to have an effect. It really, really hurt him; you could see that he really did feel pain...
...They're just three little letters, but over the past semester, they have struck fear in the hearts and pain in the hands and wrists of countless students...
...signs as well as the severity of RSI can vary from case to case, but the most common symptoms are pain and tingling in the hands, wrists or arms...
...private pain of the Dahmer (pronounced DAY-mer) family was also a national tragedy. Vernon, a prosperous businessman, headed the Hattiesburg branch of the N.A.A.C.P., so the Klan targeted him with a "No. 3" and a "No. 4": shorthand for arson and murder. At his funeral, thousands of admirers poured into Shady Grove Baptist Church. President Johnson sent Ellie Dahmer a telegram mourning her husband and calling for a federal investigation...
...course. As a moral to Price's story, this would be pompous. But the author doesn't offer a moral, simply an accurate portrayal of a society all of whose visible elements--cops, press, E.R. medics, pastors, mothers' groups, gawkers and stone throwers--take their energy from pain. A reliable energy source, the reader reflects; bloody hands make the world go 'round...