Word: pained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back-room dentist took out six teeth, but ran into trouble on a seventh. "My gums bled and swelled up so much he couldn't grind any more," she recalls. Despite her pain, the dentist extracted full payment from her before she left. Agnes Jones had to go back again and again to have her gums treated. When she finally got her plates, they fitted so badly that her mouth swelled unbearably. Not until another dentist had her mouth X-rayed was it found that the back-room dentist had broken a tooth and ground it below...
...20th Century-Fox) takes a tedious two hours to say good night. A tear-stained biography of a grade-school teacher, it stars Jennifer Jones as the town's prim disciplinarian whose glacial tones can make a hardened hoodlum jump to attention. One fine morning, Jennifer gets a pain in her back and. as she awaits medical attention, launches into the first of a series of flashbacks that show her renouncing her true love (she has to pay back some $11,-ooo her ever-loving daddy embezzled), helping a Polish immigrant to learn English and grow up to write...
...dramatic contrast of her long white fingers spread against a jet-black robe, in the sudden change in her face as, in mid-song, a new thought crosses her mind. She listens with a special intentness while others sing to her-although it is a question whether the pain that sometimes touches her brow is called for by the plot or caused by a fellow singer's strained note...
...contrast to his gay, decorative painting, O'Hara's subjects are somber. They express tragedy and pain. The Harlequins, flying kites in Number 13 appear to be receiving stigmata, driven into their bodies by the kite ropes. Other figures are running away, pleading, weeping, or lost in contemplation. When O'Hara succeeds in his composition he intensifies the isolation of his subjects...
...solution to all cotton's problems, as Benson sees it, is to work out a more flexible support program, under which the Department of Agriculture could lower the price-support level when it saw fit. Benson thinks that a flexible formula would drop prices with a minimum of pain, boost the U.S. in world markets, help clear out the Government's surplus stocks...