Word: paines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moonlit street in the heel of Italy a British soldier uttered a cry of pain, fell with a stab wound in his back. Angry Tommies beat through the dark village, could not find the assailant. Next day a gang of Italian youths pummeled a tipsy British soldier. Again Tommies rushed to the rescue. Shots rang out, hit some bystanders, dispersed a defiant...
...history of the world, had walked with capricious tread. In China millions had died, millions were destitute after nearly seven years of it. Russia, after 33 months of it, was fighting back to victory over thousands of devastated square miles; her casualties were enormous. Germany was in terrible pain, full of dead and maimed, pockmarked by the greatest bomb damage any nation had ever suffered. The conquered peoples of Europe still starved and died...
...scholar shall go into any tavern or victualling house in Cambridge to eat and drink there, unless in the presence of his parent or guardian, without leave from the President, a professor, or a tutor ..." under pain of a 50 cent fine, thus spake the Harvard Laws of 1816, which are now being shown with other examples of student life and the regulation thereof in the basement display room of Widener...
...quite probably the artist who works the hardest." Dali said he wrote his "long and boring" forthcoming novel in four New Hampshire months of '"fourteen implacable hours" of work a day. His heroine, Solange de Cleda, is a symbol of what he calls Cledalism-"pleasure and pain sublime in an all-transcending identification with the object...
Salter's experiments have produced amazing results. He trained patients to anesthetize themselves by autohypnosis; they jabbed needles into their arms without feeling it and, by means of posthypnotic suggestion, remained indifferent to the pain even after they "awoke." Salter also conditioned patients to deafness to all sounds but his own voice. When a gun was fired behind a patient, he gave no sign of hearing it; his blood pressure did not even rise. Salter played a recording of an air raid so loud that he could not hear his own voice, but the patient heard Salter...