Word: sore
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...though the relationship, as the Old Testament that Begin knows so well might have put it, was sore tried. Angered by U.S. criticism, Israel continued to withhold from the U.S. the military intelligence, including technical information concerning captured Soviet-made weapons, that it had gleaned from the fighting in Lebanon. Four days after President Reagan announced his peace plan, which included a request for a freeze on the building of new Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, the Israeli government stubbornly allocated $18.5 million for the construction of eight new settlements in the West Bank...
Kelly was cut after the 1980 season, but, as it happens, he is back in the Oriole clubhouse on this day to conduct chapel services. Weaver is praying for Lefthander Scott McGregor's sore arm to improve. "Or let whomever I choose to take Scottie's place-another damned decision-get the job done." When these decisions pan out, isn't this a pleasure that he will miss? "Momentarily gratifying," he grumps. "But the only real satisfaction is winning it all." He pauses. "Only did that once...
...patients use yoga, Transcendental Meditation, biofeedback, hypnosis, talk therapy or simply "imaging," an attempt to conjure up happy images and serene thoughts. One Boston woman reports success by envisioning a golden globe sending off rays that heal herpes. Another woman says that smiling constantly when she felt a cold sore coming on kept the blisters from appearing. Says Dr. Hamilton: "The placebo effect is so strong that 60% of patients treated with any technique are going to get better...
This balming of the sore by the psyche may be the best palliative. Once anger and aggression are dealt with, says Therapist Riccio, a herpes sufferer can develop the kind of psychological calm that makes recurrences milder and rarer. Most manage that within six months, according to Fordham Professor Oscar Gillespie, a co-founder of the New York Help chapter. "Given the appropriate information," Gillespie says, "90% of herpes sufferers will adjust after the initial crisis...
Herpes simplex is almost always transmitted by intimate contact between infected and noninfected skin surfaces. This does not necessarily mean sex. Notes Kessler: "If a mother has a cold sore, she shouldn't be kissing her children or anyone else." Once inside, herpes reproduces by taking over the protein-producing apparatus of the host cell. Gross calls it "a biological coup...