Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Month of Parades. A shy, giggling girl off the track, Chi likes to work herself into a cold fury at race time. She does it by arguing with herself: "You are no good. Yes, I'm good. Ah, then go and suffer." Back in her home town of Hsin-chu, where she regularly beat the boys in races at school, Chi had none of the Western competitive drive. That she learned from Reel, who discovered her in 1962 when the State Department sent him to Taiwan to coach the Nationalist Chinese team for the Asian Games. Through Reel...
...cardiovascular disorders," Dr. William S. Breall of San Francisco writes to the Journal editors: "I would like to note a few other possible dangers." First of all, Breall says, a weight lifter should learn to breathe properly, or he may fall in a faint, damage his lungs or suffer a hernia in the groin or the diaphragm. Taking issue with those who dismiss high blood pressure as a hazard, Breall draws attention to the danger of "weight lifter's hypertension." A man performing "severe isometrics," he explains, markedly increases his blood pressure because he tenses...
Starving Africans throw away gifts of American powdered milk, complaining that it harbors evil spirits. Colombian Indians refuse to drink reconstituted milk and use it instead to paint their huts. On the Navajo reservation, many Indians discard Government-issue powdered milk rather than suffer diarrhea. All have a problem in common. A surprisingly large portion of the world's population cannot digest an important ingredient in milk: lactose...
...mouth that Shaw-leaving nothing to the audience-puts the play's message, albeit one hardly characteristic of a sermonizing minister: "This foolish young man boasted himself the Devil's Disciple; but when the hour of trial came to him, he found that it was his destiny to suffer and be faithful to the death. I thought myself a decent minister of the gospel of peace; but when the hour of trial came to me, I found that it was my destiny to be a man of action, and that my place was amid the thunder of the captains...
...homes, sometimes reach temperatures of 350°. That is hot enough to cook chicken or beef. For years, these grilles have been searing the unwitting with waffle-like patterns. They are the leading cause of burns among children under five; altogether, 30,000 to 60,000 people a year suffer furnace burns serious enough to require medical attention...