Word: pained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Comparing the broad philosophies of the two groups, he said, "The Jewish way of life emphasizes suffering, pain, striving and achievement. They have no spiritual reason to believe that things will be better in the future...
...feet square and four feet high. "It looked like a coffin," Merlino said. The two friends were tied down with chains to planks and metal rings, left wrists to right ankles, right wrists to left ankles. "The rings fitted very tightly." said Merlino, "and the slightest movement caused terrible pain. The torture lasted an hour and a half. I remember I once shouted, 'Togliatti, come and see what you've done...
Summing up their torture techniques, Dr. Mayo charged the communists with exploiting not only physical pain, but also intense psychological pressure. He said, "The total picture presented is one of human beings reduced to a status lower than that of animals' filthy, full of lice; festered wounds full of maggots; their sickness regulated to a point just short of death . . . isolated, faced with squads of trained interrogators, bullied incessantly, deprived of sleep and browbeaten into mental anguish." But always, in return for signing a confession of having conducted germ warfare, the prisoners were promised an end to torture, good treatment...
...bulkhead." The sailors didn't know the code, so the injured officer taught them how to hammer out SOS with a wrench and a wooden stick. "Then he said, 'Let us pray.' He led us in the Lord's Prayer. He never mentioned his pain once." After half an hour, rescue workers heard the tapped-out SOS and groped their way to the trapped men. The heroic officer, Lieut. Leonard M. De Rose, a Reserve flier, died later...
...there were complications. Freud was the eldest son, but of his father's second marriage; he was thus born uncle to nieces and nephews older than himself -"one of the many paradoxes his young mind had to grapple with." Like other firstborns, he suffered the pain of having to share his mother with "intruders" (younger brothers and sisters). Author Jones has a lot of tricky unraveling to do for this tangled period, and comes out at the end with a neat ball of womb-symbols, erotic fantasies and thwarted infantile greed. Of this last, "traces . . . remained in [Freud...