Word: paines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secure the Peace." Tardily, after the unsoldierly hubbub of homesick G.I.s had reached a stage of near-mutiny (TIME, Jan. 21), Chief of Staff Eisenhower had forbidden any more soldiers' demonstrations on pain of court-martial. Now he told why he had put the brakes on demobilization and thus touched off the rumpus...
...first question presented was whether the nation would have to continue going through the labor pains of strikes before terms of settlement were reached. The second was how much pain, if any, the terms of settlement would mean...
...extramural solace with vivacious María Teresa, Duchess of Alba, whose reputation at court was as scandalous as his own. Warned a well-meaning friend: "This particular fruit already has lots of bites in it." But Goya paid no heed. When he saw Teresa, "a tingle of delicious pain hovered at the edge of [his] eyelids." Most of Author White's lively novel is the story of this 20-year attachment...
...Pablo Picasso's 1930 semi-abstract Crucifixion, a crowded arrangement of pea-green, red and yellow limbs and lumps, in which Christ's face is a tiny knot of pain in the center of a doorknob-shaped skull...
...Washington the world's hunger and pain were written down in neat columns of figures. The endless statistics from UNRRA headquarters in Washington remained just figures...