Word: paines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Certain organisms can stand intense cold; some survive temperatures of -272° Centigrade. Cold is a preservative and an anesthetic; it slows metabolism, kills pain, halts the spread of infection. Grossman & Allen found that when they packed a gangrenous leg in ice before amputation, reducing its skin temperature from the normal 90° to 40°, they needed no other anesthetic; the danger of death from shock was greatly reduced and the leg healed better and quicker. Sometimes the refrigeration technique, by allowing time for drugs and other treatments to take effect, even saved the leg from amputation...
...themselves. He writes with delicacy of the blundering stratagems and satisfactions of an adolescent mechanic called Pimples. But in theme and design the novel is a disappointing piece of second-rate, back-to-the-bulls fiction. Moreover, Steinbeck writes carelessly. Mrs. Pritchard has never known a day's pain on page 64; on page 210 she begins to get one of her periodic, prostrating migraines...
...Morrisons left early, realizing that the Gardners had a tiring day ahead. Max Gardner was in bed by 10 o'clock. Five hours later, he awoke with a sharp pain in his chest. The hotel's doctor was summoned. At 5 a.m. a heart specialist was called. Examination showed that a blood clot was blocking off the blood from Max Gardner's heart. At 8:25 a.m. the starved heart stopped. Oliver Max Gardner was dead. It would be hard to find as good a man to fill his place...
California (Paramount) is a big, energetic Technicolored western about the 1848 gold rush. It should cause no particular pain to anyone, except possibly historians. Ray Milland is the sullen, unshaven hero. Barbara Stanwyck the hussy-with-heart-of-gold, Barry Fitzgerald the lovable old grape-growing philosopher, and George Coulouris the fine, fascist-minded villain...
Prakasam said that his government had arrested 500 Red leaders because they had initiated a provincewide "reign of terror and pain." He cited chapter and verse to back this up. The Communists had seized lands, looted crops, attacked government buildings, murdered landlords and servants, burned rice trains...