Word: hurts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yeats, and she had consented to see me; but nothing so rich and gracious had been anticipated. Wrapped in a black silk brocade robe with great silver buttons, she sat by a coal fire under an oval picture of her mother, and guarded by a Maltese cat. My heart hurt. Could this wreck, this ruin, this witch be the "outrageously beautiful" Maud Gonne? The woman Yeats had called "a classical impersonation of the spring, with complexion luminous as apple blossoms through which the light falls"? The mouth had sunk. The chin approached the nose. How heart-wrenching the mutations...
...cause. "I hope they will cause no offense," he said. "I merely want to state some facts." Attlee, who once taught history and law at London University, can state facts in the manner of Mr. Squeers informing one of Nicholas Nickleby's pupils that a thrashing will hurt you more than it does me. His "words of no offense" transformed Churchill's thunderclap into a transatlantic whirlwind...
McGrath agreed that the Reynolds letter was a decisive factor. "On the surface it was fair," he said. "But the insinuated support of HUERA hurt...
Kathy, he said, began the day at Miami's Macfadden-Deauville Pool trying to do a difficult dive-a back one-and-a-half layout-off a 33-ft. board. She failed, hit "perfectly flat on her belly" and complained that her back hurt. Then he took her to the Treasure Isle Pool, where the children did conditioning work five days a week. Lifeguard Dick Kohler reported that she had "bruises all over her" and "wasn't feeling well." Russ fed her a can of baby soup. She vomited. Then Russ told her to go into the water...
...London Times called it "an exquisite opera," but the review otherwise showed no deep enthusiasm for the work. The Manchester Guardian faint-praised it as "full of sweet sounds that give delight and do not hurt or exacerbate in the least ... A very moving act of homage." The Daily Express said bluntly that "the piece is not stageworthy. The plot is too insipid. The music ... is too syrup-sweet...