Word: paines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pathologic drinker gets that way for a number of reasons: as escape (from his job, a nagging wife, depression); because he cannot adjust his personality to the normal course of life; by the "one for the road" philosophy which leads him away from controlled drinking; through mental illness, physical pain or immature emotional makeup. No one is born an alcoholic; heredity is only an excuse...
...Grice, stripped to his white sleeveless jumper, was soon supervising in wards and teaching procedure in lecture halls. His team would stay five or six weeks, the physiotherapists longer if necessary. Treatment for the disease, whose mysteries remain largely unsolved: Sister Kenny's hot packs to relieve pain and muscle training to restore function; occasional non-specified drugs, plenty of rest...
Like many another guest at the Red Army Day party in Moscow, U.S. Embassy Clerk Waldo Ruess (rhymes with U.S.) of Hollywood was feeling no pain. Some time during the evening his eye lit on a lovely actress from the State Theater and he asked to drive her home. The girl accepted, but before they had gone far she had a change of heart and jumped out of his car, yelling for help. As a cop or two ran up, Clerk Ruess sighed at the wonder of woman and drove...
...doors, cupboards and trunks helped to keep the birth canal open. A respectable lady did not allow a male doctor to examine her person. Hidden behind the bed curtains, she extended first one wrist, then the other, handed out an ivory female figurine marked with the place where the pain was located...
...years passed and the menace of Hitler became unmistakable, Editor Schoenberner experienced the pain of watching most of Simpl's staff succumb slowly but surely to the enemy. Strange palsies seized the hands of cartoonists when they were asked to depict Hitler; a poet who had made Germany laugh with his verses "On Hitler's Mustache" took to wearing a brown shirt. When Hitler's minions broke into the offices to tear them apart, they found a magazine that was already dead by its own hand...