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Word: paines (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came up, as consciousness and pain returned, he tried to rise. He saw that he was trapped. He was lying on his back at the bottom of a rocky California canyon, about 40 miles from Oakland. His wrecked automobile was on its side beside him and his right hand and wrist were pinned underneath the car's front fender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Five Days | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

...home. He guessed he had gone to sleep; he had a vague memory of terror, of feeling his car plunge through a fence and sail out into the gulley. He twisted on the hard ground until his back was raw and his wounded hand throbbed with pain. Then he thought of his wife, Mae, at home in Richmond, and he lay still and wept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Five Days | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

...appeared in a vision before him. God had given Avak the power to cure. Letters from the old country swore it was true. With a touch of his fingers Avak cured ulcers, paralysis, cancer. He had been tried for charlatanry-and had won acquittal by curing the throbbing pain in his judge's head. He had also won as his staunchest disciple the Iranian army doctor 'assigned to investigate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Faith | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

Sonorous tones familiar to Cleveland's temple last week filled the committee room at Lake Success: "In these tragic years, when the whole household of Israel became one great hostelry of pain, we could not have builded what we did build had we not preserved our unshakable trust in the victory of truth." Grey-maned Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, speaking for the Jewish Agency for Palestine, was telling the 55 U.N. delegations what the Zionists regard as truth's victory: unlimited immigration of refugee Jews into Palestine, creation of a Zionist state when Jews outnumber the Arabs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: On the Record | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

Probably the most dubious statement of the week, to laymen's ears, came from the University of Illinois' famed Dr. Andrew C. Ivy. Most of the pain people feel during dental drilling, said he, is no doubt only psychic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Take It Easy | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

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