Word: pained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Columbia comedians were forbidden, on pain of $10 fines, to use profanity. Lahr was also instructed in other taboos: it was considered offensive to refer either to rats or false teeth. The shows were, in effect, well-staged revues, and were often reviewed by critics. In this heady atmosphere Lahr felt a new need. Funnymen, like birds of passage, are best identified by their distinctive cries. He developed one which sounded as though he were being strangled to death: "Gung-gung-gung-gung-gung." And though he remained a loud, low comedian, he labored for the sympathy of the audience...
...When an apprentice gets hurt, or complains of being tired, the workmen and peasants have this fine expression: 'It is the trade entering his body.' Each time that we have some pain to go through, we can say to ourselves quite truly that it is the universe, the order, and beauty of the world and the obedience of creation to God that are entering our body. After that how can we fail to bless ... the Love that sends us this gift?" ¶"Of all the beings other than Christ of whom the Gospel tells us, the good thief...
...hurtled above the crowd upside down, started to roll over and up. Then with an eerie roar it ripped downward, crushed spectators, smashed six cars, including an ambulance. In an instant, the happy crowd was turned into a panic-stricken, blood-spattered mass of humanity screaming in terror and pain...
...grounds of a Zurich clinic, photographers got a picture they had given up hope of getting: a shot of Sir Stafford Cripps, looking older and ravaged by pain, but on his feet again. His response to treatment for a tubercular spine condition also amazed his doctors, who predicted that he would be able to leave for his home in England within a month...
Then, without warning, pain and sudden death clutched Pont-Saint-Esprit. On a Saturday night three weeks ago, the town's doctors began getting calls from people complaining of heartburn, stomach cramps and fever chills. At first, they thought it was a mild epidemic of meat poisoning. But the calls kept flooding in. By Monday, 70 houses in the village had become tiny hospitals, with most of their families in bed. Then the doctors found their first clue: every one of the patients had eaten bread from the shop of Baker Roch Briand. All eight of Pont-Saint-Esprit...