Word: painfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fate dealt Harvard a cruel hand. It allowed Larry Brown, ignoring the pain of an injured shoulder and the discomfort of a protective harness, to lead an incomplete comeback that had alumni dancing with delusions of another miraculous tie, a 35-all spectacle that would have been just too perfect an end to the tenth anniversary of the 1968 deadlock...
...home the pain of such a policy became more evident. The Federal Reserve has been trying to contain an inflationary increase in the U.S. money supply by raising interest rates to near record levels, but it is still unclear whether the policy is succeeding. Money supply jumped $2.1 billion last week, wiping out more than a third of a big drop registered the week before. That means interest rates will probably have to move even higher than the 10.75% that banks now charge on "prime" loans to their best business customers?possibly above the record 12% rate...
...dedication has obviously had an effect on his teammates in both games and practices. Pain in one of his shoulders has been diagnosed as bone chips. The other shoulder has a similar problem, but Potysman has not had it x-rayed. In one game he came off the field in tears from the pain but insisted on staying in. He suffered a concussion against Brown, yet managed to finish the contest...
Then, questioned about John Dexter, the unkind director of Equus, the face contracts in remembered pain and somber reflection. "He really frightened me. For the first time in my life at a rehearsal I wondered 'Do I belong here?" A beat, and the muscles set in determined professionalism. "But that's not important. What's important is what happens on stage." She admires the director's work, and cannot ignore his contribution to the play or to her performance. With complete sincerity, she says "I love...
...such times Belisle, like other field workers, tries to concentrate on the pain the child has endured and is likely to endure again if it does not escape from home. The screening room file cabinets are filled with case histories: babies with cigarette burns on their tongues; small children whose backs have been scarred with human bite marks; innumerable children with the classic child-abuse injury: the telltale "spiral fracture," a twisting, lightning-shaped bone break caused by extreme twisting of a spindly arm. But having invoked the memory of such things. Belisle gets a measure of relief by correcting...