Word: paines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since last spring when a Berkeley, Calif, surgeon sawed two holes in her skull "to let out the pain," as she understood the purpose of the operation, Dema Dunlap, 23, a buxom, introspective epileptic, had an irresistible compulsion to finger her scalp where it lay sewn over the trephine holes. The soft spots, yielding under pressure of her finger tips, felt like the germinal depressions of a coconut...
...scalp over a trephine hole. It hurt a little, but it made her feel better. Reaching her left hand over her head, she held the spike in position and with her right fist pounded the spike into her brain as far as it would go, Except for the trifling pain in the scalp she felt nothing, because the tissue of the brain is insensate...
...came in contact with him. high or low, had a background and upbringing which were alien to her pattern. He had a physical weakness... Whether it was some-weakness from his early years which the strain of the life he was living [in Texas] accentuated, whether it was the pain he endured, I do not know. . . . He began, however, to drink, and for my mother and his brother, Theodore, and his sisters began the period of harrowing anxiety which was to last until his death...
...Landon was to deliver his bid for the farm vote at Des Moines last September, Democratic Nominee Roosevelt made headlines by announcing that he had appointed a committee headed by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace to work out a plan of crop insurance. Up from Topeka rose realistic howls of pain and rage as Landon handlers claimed the President was stealing their man's stuff. Snatching it from his forthcoming speech, they rushed the Landon crop insurance program to the press: "I believe that the question of crop insurance should be given the fullest attention" (TIME...
...giants have trouble with their feet. Robert Wadlow has no sensations of touch, pain or temperature in his feet. Says Dr. Humberd: "He is unaware of a wrinkle in his sock or a foreign body in his shoe until a blister, followed by an ulcer, is formed." His ears are oversize, his heart in proper proportion, genitalia small but normal...