Word: pained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stroke three years ago. The knowledge of his condition had come as sudden and shocking news to him. He had had himself checked carefully before his 1952 presidential campaign, and had been given a clean bill of health. Last spring he went to his doctor with the exasperating pain in his hip, which he had tried to alleviate with aspirin tablets, and had gradually learned, after many tests, that what he had might be very serious. In June the doctors told him that his case was "virtually hopeless." He told Mrs. Taft that he might have a malignancy but belittled...
...first signs of illness that the Senator noted, last April, were pains in his legs. In May he had severe pain in his left hip. Four days of examinations and tests in the Army's Walter Reed General Hospital did not show definitely what was wrong, but by a process of elimination they raised a suspicion of cancer. Senator Taft flew to Cincinnati and entered Christian R. Holmes Hospital. There, samples of tissue were taken from nodules found under his skin. The tissues contained abnormal cells. To double-check, Cincinnati sent samples to Manhattan's Memorial Center...
...side to be sentenced-wept with compassion for each other in Detroit one day last week. The judge's tears came as he considered the anguish which led Jones to electrocute his wife, Barbara, a sufferer from incurable diabetes, who had lost both legs and suffered agonizing pain. Jones wept as the judge explained that he could not condone the killing but could only "show you every consideration." "I want to thank you," said Jones, after getting a one-to-five-year sentence, "but I can't talk...
Silvio Capuana could never forget the poverty of his youth, or the pain and contempt it had brought him in the Apennine village of Contrada, where he was born 60 years ago. Reared in a two-room hovel swarming with flies, brothers and sisters, all as dirty and hungry as himself, he had spent his childhood working long hours in the local wheatfields for a few pennies a day, resenting the shouts of harsh masters and dreaming of a better life. As soon as he was old enough, he fled to seek his fortune in Canada...
...more lurid struggle was going on. John Randolph, pain-ridden, drink-ridden, drug-ridden, and yet the clearest head in Congress, was fighting for local rights against the anti-conservative growth of central power. John C. Calhoun, quenching his own burning ambition, was busy on his unpopular formulation of minority rights against "the tyranny of majorities." Nathaniel Hawthorne was throwing his almost obsessive consciousness of sin into the bland and smiling face of the growing optimism...