Word: paines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doctors have found another painkiller. In a recent issue of the British Medical Journal, Drs. W. M. Wilson and R. B. Hunter of Edinburgh described tests on a new "analgesic" called C.B. II (short for 4:4 -diphenyl -6 -morpho-linoheptan-3-one hydrochloride). It has eased pain from heart disease, sciatica, gangrene, pleurisy, other notorious pain causers. So far no serious disadvantages have shown up. Apparently the drug is not habit-forming...
There is little chance that C.B. II will prove the perfect, all-purpose painkiller-or that any such wonder drug will ever be found. Pain is a complicated and mysterious thing. It is often dangerous not to feel it, for it is the body's alarm system. But pain sometimes rings the alarm so loudly and long that it upsets the body's whole balance. Some kinds of pain the doctors would like to reduce, some they would like to remove entirely...
...analgesics" (drugs that knock out pain without knocking out the patient) do their work is a mystery, too. Presumably they interfere with the pain messages in the nerves that run from the skin or interior organs through the brain...
...newspaper rights: "It is, in a way, a report to women, other women ... I was to work and eat and ride and laugh and drink and play and suffer with the famous commander ... I was to know love, intimately. And I was to know, just as intimately, the unspeakable pain of losing my lover in battle . . ."t Her job was, she knew, an enviable one -"An obvious side door to the Supreme Commander's mental apartment." But it had its unpleasant features: "There were some ridiculous (though hurtful) smears on my reputation." To clear up the record, Kay announced...
Railroad men yelped in pain as well as anger. What stung them most were murmurs by Government men that railroaders had infiltrated the Army & Navy transportation services and had been able to bill the Government to benefit their companies. Snapped New York Central's President Gustav Metzman: "The Government was not in any instance charged a higher rate than commercial shippers . . . I would like to testify to the conscientious service rendered by our railroad...