Word: paines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...former Army flyer and two young women, the light plane cracked up in the woods near Kenton, Ohio. Charles Gorman's three companions were killed; for about 40 hours he lay in the wreckage. Later, in a Kenton hospital, still woozy from the narcotics which eased the pain of his shattered left arm, he tried to tell what it had been like...
...word, Sophie was reassuring: she was telling the world that the New Look could be acquired with comparatively little pain to either torsos or pocketbooks. "After all," said she, "our girls have beautiful figures. Do you think they'll want to spoil them with padded hips? Even if they do like this tight waistline, how many are willing to go through the agony to get it? I put on one of those new corsets and after 15 minutes I had to take it off. I've never been so uncomfortable in my life...
Helpful Patients. Once the Navajos are won over, Dr. Salsbury says, they make wonderful patients. They rarely show irritation and are stoical about pain. They also seem to be impervious to many of the white man's diseases: Dr. Salsbury has never found a case of scarlet fever among the Navajos. Also rare: diabetes, breast cancer, baldness...
Despite a low moan now & then about a possible depression, U.S. business is feeling no pain. One of the best long-range indicators of what businessmen expect is their spending for new plants and equipment. In its current monthly bulletin, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia states that such expenditures are now running at a record annual rate of $16 billion, more than three times the annual average for the two decades preceding...
Holdout. Eddie staged a two-month holdout for $5,000 a week, got it after the studio screen-tested hundreds of other pigs, found Eddie irreplaceable. But when the film was run off, Moses Fable "uttered a wild cry of pain." The screen showed a pig implausibly growing smaller as the film went on. The last part of the film had been shot first when Eddie was only half the size he achieved during his two-month strike...