Word: pains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strikes with jackhammer fury and lasts from a few minutes to several days. Along with the throbbing pain, eyes tear, vision blurs and there are waves of nausea. The slightest disturbance?the closing of a door, a sudden aroma, the switching on of a light?can be devastating. As Dr. John B. Brainard explains, "The ache becomes an intolerable, overwhelming force, driving you to bed, away from people, away from the world, away from everything except the hideous pain inside your head...
...Passamaquoddies live on this 99-acre strip of land. It is all the white man has left them. They wear white man's clothes, speak the white man's language, as well as their own, indulge in his pleasures, suffer from his problems, and learn from it all. The pain of time's cultural incarceration has grown numb; undaunted, they are happy, and they are building...
...help stutterers, each project chapter holds weekly meetings to discuss various therapies,* as well as plans for dealing with job discrimination and social ridicule. Members also take the opportunity to unload their pain and resentment. Says Goldman: "These are people who never, never before participated in any group. Many just don't interact with people outside their immediate families. The shame runs very deep...
...Please Mr. Please," Olivia demonstrates her ability as a country singer. Although she won't make you forget Loretta Lynn, Olivia's version earned her the 1975 Country Music Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. "Please Mr. Please" explores the pain of a recent break-up, a pain that is exacerbated by hitting the B-17 combination on the juke box that plays the estranged couple's favorite song...
...from simple pneumonia. But when doctors at the Medical Center Hospital of Vermont in Burlington investigated further last August, they realized that they were probably dealing with something more puzzling and dangerous. As Dr. Harry Beaty, the hospital's chief of medicine, recalls, the symptoms-dry cough, abdominal pain, general malaise -"were defying all our usual concepts of pneumonia." So he promptly sent off blood samples to Atlanta's Center for Disease Control (CDC). A few weeks later the center's sleuths confirmed Beaty's worst fears. His "pneumonia" patients were, in fact, victims...