Word: trauma
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...thought of all the generations of women who had such dreams for their lives, but had given them up. I thought of the trauma when my own daughter was born, the battles she would have to fight. Perhaps the cycle will...
...whatever he's doing." She is especially eager to play the lead in a film biography of the late Billie Holiday, "to sing about blues and sadness." Accordingly, she has set herself to storing up bitter experiences that will help her in the role. Her biggest trauma so far came last year in New Jersey, when someone poisoned her pet dogs...
...become brittle because they lose some of the calcium compounds that provide rigidity and strength. The elderly are notoriously vulnerable to hip fractures from even a light fall. In some cases, ribs or the long bones of the arms or legs fracture spontaneously, without a fall or noticeable trauma. The condition can also be congenital, and in such rare cases it becomes a lifelong affliction...
Deft Intrigue. Dobbs spends most of the movie trying to force Mellie to confess to murder; she spends most of her time trying to figure out just whom she killed. One unsure note is the convenient reason she resists Bronson's insistent interrogation: a childhood trauma has made her reluctant to confess anything. Still, Clement weaves his intrigues so deftly that such minor annoyances never seriously intrude...
...Massachusetts Supreme Court upheld a $250 award for humiliation and mental suffering to a Worcester black who was refused an apartment because of his race. In a similar case decided last week, the Rev. William Gray, minister of a Baptist church in Montclair, N.J., won $500 for "psychological trauma" - plus the right to move into an apartment that had been denied...