Word: vexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...overfilled cask. Usually the sickening pain stays to one side of the head. ("Migraine" comes from Latin hemicrania, "half-head.") With many victims the pain shifts around, may even travel down to the neck, shoulders, arms. The skin, particularly the scalp, may be unusually sensitive. Touch, sound, sight vex the victim...
Into action went Peru's Congress. It passed a bill specifically empowering the President "to commute death sentences imposed on would-be murderers to penal servitude." This was certainly a broad hint. Lest it vex the punctured President, whose military rank last week was that of Lieutenant Colonel, the Congress passed another bill promoting him retroactively to the rank of Colonel, this appointment to date from...
What the Supreme Court had done to vex Albania's royal Dictator and whether or not a new Supreme Court will be appointed, Albania's censors refused to let the world know. As everyone knows, little King Zog is a protégé of big Dictator Benito Mussolini who pampers His Majesty with guns, ammunition, loans...
...appeared in bookstores last week* started out to be Dr. Herbert Spencer Dickey's account of his discovering the source of the Orinoco River (TIME, Aug. 10). But for a long time he had wanted to speak out about men, institutions and conditions in Latin America which have vexed him. His book turned from a travelog into a philippic. Lest readers doubt his competence to criticize he took care to detail that he has spent but 30 months of the past 31 years outside of South America. For 25 years he was physician & surgeon to mines, railways, sugar...
...debts and reparations, You're a blight on all the nations, You embitter their relations, You're the chief of all causations Of their woes and tribulations, Of the problems that perplex them, Of the ills that grieve and vex them, Of the burdens that oppress them, And the sufferings that distress them, The anxieties that fret them, And the dangers that beset them...