Word: unpleasanter
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Some patients were running doctors ragged with petty requests. ("I always use Carter's Little Liver Pills. Please can I have a chit so that I can get them free?") A few diehard doctors, still hoping that the act would be a bust, were blandly prescribing champagne, oysters, whiskey...
Sooner or later, almost everybody has to go to work. Every year about now this thought begins to assume unpleasant prominence in the minds of most of the College's Seniors.
Psychotherapy (the treatment of mental illness) includes other surprising-and less unpleasant-methods. At the Menninger clinic, for instance, doctors might prescribe, for a depressed patient, "two weeks of unsolicited love." This means that the patient's doctor and nurses should treat him with the full measure of brotherly...
It is undoubtedly mere coincidence that Harvard came out on the short end of these myopic lapses, but nevertheless such events have the worst possible effect on amateur athletics. It was lax officiating that led to the unpleasant and bloody Moher incident in the Harvard-Yale hockey game in February...
In many quarters this news will come as an unpleasant and unexpected blow. Only a short time after the Saltonstall Committee was set up, in the Spring of 1947, a Student Council poll showed that 98.2 per cent of the College favored a utilitarian memorial, and that 50.4 per cent...