Word: paines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Patients were told to give up drugs, forget about surgery, depend on diet and the colored lights. Diabetics should eat raw and brown sugar, expose their bodies to alternate yellow and magenta light; the yellow light was also effective for worms, magenta for heart disease, indigo for pain. Purple would decrease sex desire, scarlet increase it. Gonorrhea could be cured, in early cases, by green or turquoise, in later cases by lemon; syphilis, by two weeks of green plus four weeks of lemon. No matter what was the matter with them, said the gadget's inventor, patients should sleep...
...drew me towards her; but at the sight of her bare shoulder and its dazzling whiteness, some sort of craziness possessed me; instead of putting my lips to the cheek she offered me, fascinated by her dazzling shoulder, I gave it a great bite . . . My cousin screamed with pain and I with horror. She began to bleed and I to spit with disgust...
...Acute Pain. "I really think this thing shocked a lot of guys into realizing that unionism is more than a matter of nickels and dimes," he said, "and that personal interests and prejudices aren't as important as they seem." Sitting at the bedside, Jimmy Wechsler noted that Reuther's face was dead white, that he paused from time to time as the pain grew acute. The reporter remembered, nervously, that he had been instructed to leave after 15 minutes. But Reuther asked him to stay on because "this thing doesn't hurt so much when...
Boyle: "The poet said a thing of beauty is a joy forever. Sometimes it is a pain forever...
Burket: "The poet said a thing of beauty is a joy forever. Occasionally it is a pain forever...