Word: pioneering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extreme attention was natural. No woman had ever before run for national office on the ticket of a major party, and everybody wanted a closeup look at the pioneer. All week long she seemed at ease in the spotlight. Despite a few iffy moments, Ferraro held her own with the press. With partisan audiences she was unerring: in appearance after appearance she shrewdly ingratiated herself with the various sectors of the Democratic coalition, showing a rapid-fire fluency in the kind of person-to-person political happy talk that will be required for the next 15 weeks of campaigning...
...sorry there was little mention of the nurse's role in dealing with pain. In caring for patients, nurses have sought alternative methods to drugs for easing suffering. We follow the advice of Margo McCaffery, the pain pioneer, who said, "Pain is whatever the person experiencing it says it is, and exists whenever he or she says it exists." Gina Holmes Manhattan Beach, Calif...
DIED. Lee Krasner, 75, pioneer abstract expressionist painter of the New York School, whose mastery of draftsmanship and color, informed by an angry toughness and an exceptionally strong sense of rhythm, showed the influence of Matisse and Picasso as well as Jackson Pollock, her husband from 1945 until his death in 1956; after a long illness; in New York City. When they met in 1936, the Brooklyn-born Krasner was the better credentialed of the two and helped move Pollock toward the avantgarde. She continued to paint in a mutually respectful, noncompetitive partnership with him during the years of poverty...
Like their pioneer ancestors who traveled west in covered wagons, American vacationers hitting the roads this summer will take their beds with them. From Maine's Acadia National Park to Zion National Park in Utah and beyond, 7 million recreational vehicles will be on the road. They range from small folding trailers that barely accommodate four people and cost about $2,500 to sumptuous 30-ft. motor coaches that comfortably sleep six or more and are laden with microwave ovens, walnut paneling and air conditioners, all for a neat...
...explains, pain is often magnified because it is interpreted as "a signal of the disease having recurred, or some terrible complication setting in, or worse, that you are dying." Hope and encouragement can, on the other hand, make pain seem less than it is. During World War II, pioneer Pain Researcher Henry Beecher found that soldiers wounded during the bloody battle at Anzio needed far less morphine than did civilians with similar wounds. The presumed reason, now known as the "Anzio effect," was that for civilians the wounds were a source of anxiety; for soldiers they meant going home...