Word: paines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fine; to the Baltimore Sun, thoughtful; the Chicago Daily News (which last week dropped the name of its owner, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox from its masthead called it a courageous speech and came out for Willkie for President. Columnist Ray Clapper asserted that people were filled with pain and disappointment at the bad delivery, judged Willkie "by the Roosevelt standard of radio crooning," but changed their minds if they read the speech. "Not many major political utterances in modern times have rung with such courage as this Willkie acceptance speech. . . . [He] has destroyed utterly the fugitive dreams...
...short vacation at his Alpine snuggery, rescinded his ban on dancing and decreed that his countrymen could dance on Wednesdays and Saturdays between 7 p.m. and curfew. He also granted them permission to tune in on Nazi-occupied Norway, Belgium, The Netherlands and France, but still forbade them under pain of beheading to listen to Denmark, which, at least theoretically, is not "subject to German sovereignty...
...less dramatic but equally effective. There lay the French battleship Lorraine, the heavy cruisers Tourville and Duquesne, two other cruisers and several smaller ships. Their commanders were simply told that they would not be allowed to obey the Pétain Government's order to come home, on pain of being sunk by gunfire and torpedoes launched from concealed tubes on shore. While the French digested this ultimatum, over came some Italian bombers on a raid and the French ships joined the British in putting up a hot anti-aircraft barrage. A vote was taken among the French seamen...
...physiotherapy means anything to the layman, it is apt to mean quackery and cultism-high colonic irrigations, spine juggling, nudist colonies. Actually, physiotherapy is an ancient and honorable art which uses such natural methods as heat, massage and exercise to invigorate the body, relieve pain. Though most of its practitioners are laymen, physiotherapy is a special pet of the American Medical Association. Last week, for the umpteenth time, the Journal of the A. M. A. begged doctors to wrest this lucrative and valuable specialty from the hands of the quacks...
Massage. Scientific masseurs have a broad repertory of tricks up their sleeves-from gentle effleurage (stroking) to kneading and tapotement (percussion), which includes hacking, slapping, beating, tapping. In cases of sprains and fractures, skillful, restrained massage relieves pain, reduces swelling, stimulates circulation. It also soothes arthritis victims. Belly-rubs are good for constipation caused by lack of muscle tone in the digestive tract...