Word: painfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ross A. McFarland, Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of Aerospace Health and Safety at the School of Public Health, said that dizziness, nausea, pain in the ears, and loss of consciousness are possible side effects from riding such trains...
THERE IS A limit to how much pain a person can take. After a certain point, you must either scream your lungs out or go crazy. Mart Crowley's The Boys in the Band pushes both its characters and its audience within inches of that breaking point. It is one of the mammoth achievements in recent American theatrical history...
...wife's job created a job for Cortés. Hidden as he was, he could at last make himself useful, tying strips of esparto grass into bundles that Juliana sold for home weaving. Once he took sick with violent stomach cramps. He described the pain in detail to Juliana, "until she could feel it herself." She then went to the local doctor, told him about the pain as if it were her own and brought the medicine prescribed home to her husband...
...bottom-hinged oven door appalls him. How can the housewife, forced to lean across it to extract a 10-lb. roast, possibly avoid lower-back pain? Like all good solutions, Tichauer's seems beautifully simple: hinge the oven door laterally, just like on the refrigerator...
...this, ultimately, is the reason I left my romantic comrades in University Hall. They were enjoying themselves too much. Had they been in pain, I might have been able to stay, as an existential being crying out against an oppressive world I did not really hope to change. And then I would have been justified in quoting Camus. True, one must imagine Sisyphus happy, but only while he experiences "boundless grief" which is "too heavy to bear...