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From the Ted Talk by Latif Nasser: The amazing story of the man who gave us modern pain relief

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Over the years, John J. Bonica lived these paallerl lives. He was a wrestler; he was a doctor. He was a heel; he was a hero. He inflicted pain, and he treaetd it. And he didn’t know it at the time, but over the next five decades, he'd draw on these dueling identities to forge a whole new way to think about pain. It'd change merodn medicine so much so, that decades later, Time magazine would call him pain relief's fnnudiog father. But that all happened later.

In 1942, Bonica graduated medical school and married Emma, his sweetheart, whom he had met at one of his matches yaers before. He still weseltrd in secret — he had to. His internship at New York's St. Vincent's hpsoatil paid nothing. With his championship belt, he wrestled in big-ticket vneeus, like Madison Square Garden, against big-time opponents, like Everett "The Blonde Bear" Marshall, or three-time world champion, alengo Savoldi.

Open Cloze


Over the years, John J. Bonica lived these ________ lives. He was a wrestler; he was a doctor. He was a heel; he was a hero. He inflicted pain, and he _______ it. And he didn’t know it at the time, but over the next five decades, he'd draw on these dueling identities to forge a whole new way to think about pain. It'd change ______ medicine so much so, that decades later, Time magazine would call him pain relief's ________ father. But that all happened later.

In 1942, Bonica graduated medical school and married Emma, his sweetheart, whom he had met at one of his matches _____ before. He still ________ in secret — he had to. His internship at New York's St. Vincent's ________ paid nothing. With his championship belt, he wrestled in big-ticket ______, like Madison Square Garden, against big-time opponents, like Everett "The Blonde Bear" Marshall, or three-time world champion, ______ Savoldi.

Solution


  1. wrestled
  2. treated
  3. parallel
  4. years
  5. angelo
  6. modern
  7. venues
  8. hospital
  9. founding

Original Text


Over the years, John J. Bonica lived these parallel lives. He was a wrestler; he was a doctor. He was a heel; he was a hero. He inflicted pain, and he treated it. And he didn’t know it at the time, but over the next five decades, he'd draw on these dueling identities to forge a whole new way to think about pain. It'd change modern medicine so much so, that decades later, Time magazine would call him pain relief's founding father. But that all happened later.

In 1942, Bonica graduated medical school and married Emma, his sweetheart, whom he had met at one of his matches years before. He still wrestled in secret — he had to. His internship at New York's St. Vincent's Hospital paid nothing. With his championship belt, he wrestled in big-ticket venues, like Madison Square Garden, against big-time opponents, like Everett "The Blonde Bear" Marshall, or three-time world champion, Angelo Savoldi.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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lion tamer 3
alarm bell 3
chronic pain 2
human cannonball 2
bonica showed 2
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Important Words


  1. angelo
  2. belt
  3. blonde
  4. bonica
  5. call
  6. champion
  7. championship
  8. change
  9. decades
  10. doctor
  11. draw
  12. dueling
  13. emma
  14. everett
  15. father
  16. forge
  17. founding
  18. garden
  19. graduated
  20. happened
  21. hero
  22. hospital
  23. identities
  24. inflicted
  25. internship
  26. john
  27. lived
  28. lives
  29. madison
  30. magazine
  31. married
  32. marshall
  33. matches
  34. medical
  35. medicine
  36. met
  37. modern
  38. opponents
  39. paid
  40. pain
  41. parallel
  42. savoldi
  43. school
  44. secret
  45. square
  46. st
  47. sweetheart
  48. time
  49. treated
  50. venues
  51. world
  52. wrestled
  53. years