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For last several days been here, examining [unclear: Reviews] for Exemption from service -- 'Tis no pleasant work -- to see them coming with their walking sticks & then to have to set (if one would) & listento their ten thousand "Ailments" would worry one even of more patience than your "cousin Andrew" But the work is well nigh over, & soon again "I'll be marching" to other & as yet unknow fields of labor.
Augusta County: Andrew R. Barber to Mary Anna Sibert, August 30, 1864 Andrew R. Barber 1864
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Ailments have transformed her, she said, from a fit mail carrier who walked a 13-mile route into a survivor of multiple illnesses who takes 22 medications and now moves with difficulty on stiff legs.
The Center for Public Integrity: Where regulators failed, citizens took action -- testing their own air The Center for Public Integrity 2011
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Ailments aside, the honey is wonderful spread on schiacciata, the squashed white bread (like a strip of focaccia) cooked in oil and salted on top that is the snack food of every schoolchild in Tuscany.
The Other Tuscany Richard Nalley 2010
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Some attributed this to her innovative use of national newspaper advertising or the way she turned her name into a brand by placing it on a range of products, among them sewing kits, recipe collections, and a “Private Text-Book for Ailments Peculiar to Women.”
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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Some attributed this to her innovative use of national newspaper advertising or the way she turned her name into a brand by placing it on a range of products, among them sewing kits, recipe collections, and a “Private Text-Book for Ailments Peculiar to Women.”
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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Just last month my youngest daughter called from Minnesota to say she was reading a review in a Duluth newspaper of The Hypochondriac's Handbook: Syndromes, Diseases, and Ailments that Probably Should Have Killed You By Now.
Susan Orlins: Worrywart as Repository for 10 Unnerving Scenarios 2010
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Ailments and illnesses were always hard on May-ling—far more than circumstances warranted.
The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009
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Ailments became chronic and spanned years, even decades.
The low-carb movement needs your help | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009
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Returns get better or worse due to health, access to Care, previous Ailments and Injuries, and weakness of specific Organs, It always becomes a Judgement call.
Costs, Benefits, and Health Care, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Kari Henley: My Dog is a Whack Job! Canine Allergies, Anxieties and Ailments, Oh My! 2009
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