Word: pained
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...certain level of physical fitness, especially as they get older." Linda Stern Rubin of TIME'S Midwest bureau found Detroit engineers and designers conducting surveys and motion tests to determine ways to make automobile seats more comfortable. The Los Angeles bureau's Joseph Pilcher visited several "pain clinics," where such unconventional therapies such as acupuncture and electrical stimulation help patients deal with back pain...
...Begin to the Prime Minister's office. At first Begin insisted he wanted to stay and take part in the vote, but colleagues assured him there was no need. As he waited for the ambulance to arrive, Begin joked with friends, but then appeared to be in pain. He told Cabinet Secretary Aryeh Naor, who had been hospitalized with a heart attack only a month earlier: "You just came out. Now I'm going...
...hind legs and heaved the stone at the predator. Startled to see this usually four-footed prey erect, the tiger cautiously retreated. But the ape-man's triumph was costly. Unaccustomed to the abrupt, upright position, he was left doubled over in agony with a piercing pain in his lower back...
...little doubt that, when man's ancestors first learned to stand on hind legs, they exposed themselves to aches in the back that have been plaguing their descendants ever since. Today Ramapithecus' spinal distress is experienced millions of times a day around the world. Indeed, after headaches, pain in the back-usually the lower -is man's most common and intractable physical complaint. It is also the object of intensive investigation by doctors into new ways of curing this most ancient of ailments...
...males and females, people of all classes and professions. Thomas Jefferson suffered an acute case of backache when he rashly took it upon himself to show his slaves how to use a plow. Ernest Hemingway, who had a nagging back problem, chose to write standing up. To ease the pain of a wartime injury, John Kennedy spent hours in the soothing comfort of a White House rocking chair...