Word: paines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Despite pain and danger he did not lose the coarse ferocity which had endeared him to voters in Mississippi's piney woods. He bragged that one operation had left him, with "no more chin than a jack-rabbit"; he said he had a pistol under his pillow for photographers. He talked nonchalantly of death, promised to "haunt the hell" out of the Republicans who had started the fight to bar him from the Senate. As summer wore on he seemed to be on the road to recovery. But a fortnight ago his wizened, 69-year-old body fell prey...
...Party Line. Sitting at his cluttered desk, scratching a dim pencil against a pad of sleazy paper, old (68), squid-faced Zaslavsky knows his own position perfectly. Like most other responsible editors on Soviet Russia's 7,000 newspapers and 360 magazines, his is a party assignment. On pain of party inquisition he is bound to it. Even before the printers get his copy, censors see it. The party line has to be remembered, and the implacable, pervasive MVD (Secret Police). Deviation is dangerous...
...Clyde L. Deming reported that massive doses of the female hormone estrogen (instead of the small doses previously used) help four cases out of five and often prolong life. At the University of Chicago, three researchers found that a drug called ethyl carbamate is also effective; it relieves pain, reduces the size of the cancer. But unless cautiously given, the drug may be fatal...
...pain-killer called metopon hydrochloride is now available to doctors for relieving cancer patients (its use for any other purpose is forbidden). The National Research Council has found the drug a considerable improvement over morphine: it is twice as effective as a painkiller, is less likely to produce addiction, does not stupefy...
Author Adam suspected there might be a reason: "The standards which the BBC . . . has established in news may have something to do with this 'lingering pain'. It is enough that the pitch by the village dump is being disputed . . . that another medicine man has arrived . . . that his top hat and his line of talk are glossier, and that he nips in before those who have been there many a year, man and boy, have their samples unpacked...