Word: paines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Timesman. Milton Bracker, who visited the hospital last week, noticed that the patients remain calm, even when planes roar overhead. Veterinarians say they can tell that a mule is in pain only by the expression in his eyes or by a quivering muscle. Only the "shellshocked" animals make any noise. A wounded animal first gets an antitetanus shot in the neck. Then metal fragments are removed and wounds dressed under anesthesia on a ten-by-ten-foot operating table covered with rubber. As in the U.S., there is a feed shortage. Instead of hay, the animal patients get. along...
...read that extraordinary communication from Arthur Cremin in TIME'S Letters column last week? Its most memorable sentence was this: "To hell with all mankind when, through indifference to the great men who alleviate pain, it permits them either to starve, die of broken hearts, or pass their last days in acrimonious obscurity...
...hell with all mankind when, because of its indifference to the great men who alleviate its pain, it permits them either to starve, die of broken hearts, or pass their last days in acrimonious obscurity...
Arthur Train, whose silk-hatted Lawyer Ephraim Tutt has long been a famous fiction, had some real lawyer trouble to worry about. His new book, Yankee Lawyer: The Autobiography of Ephraim Tutt, had caused considerable pain to the person of Lewis R. Linet. Said Philadelphia Lawyer Linet, suing for $3.50 worth of fraudulence: "I bought the book thinking it was nonfiction. [It] is a hoax upon the plaintiff and the reading public...
Heroism and sacrifice sprouted richly in the green mountains of Yugoslavia. With them the tares of pain, hunger and disease grew too. They maimed men's bodies and spirits, crippled Marshal Tito's guerrilla army. Last week, from two firsthand reports, direct word of this suffering came to the Allies...