Word: paines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pain and Passion. The Commissioner had understood: a veteran of France's underground, he knew that silence was the Assembly's rebuke to him, to General de Gaulle, to all administrative committeemen who for any reason had postponed the trials of such Vichymen as Pierre Etienne Flandin, Pierre Boisson. Fighting Frenchmen approached this question with the pain and passion of their long agony; they resented the patent fact that the U.S. and British Governments had interceded for some of the arrested men.* They reacted as Frenchmen have always reacted: the parliamentarians in the Consultative Assembly turned upon...
Bright Triangle. In Sleepy Eye, Minn., Happy Newyear looked back on the holi days with scarcely any pain, felt fit enough to resume his correspondence with Merry Christmas over in Janesville, Wis., and Santa Claus in Marshall...
...armies broke through the Somme line in France. A year later he became an army commander in Russia when Ukrainian guerrillas killed his chief, Colonel General Eugen Ritter von Schobert. For yet another year, Manstein marched from victory to victory-Odessa, Perekop, Kerch, Sevastopol. But victory was tinged with pain: his two boys, both lieutenants, died in action. And the sands of luck were running...
...conditions interfered with this one) are packed with accounts of life in Harvard, written with mellow good humor, of the philosophy department, written rather perfunctorily, of the Lampoon, Boston Latin School, and, ceaselessly in each new scene, the effective contrasts of the old world and the new, and the pain that was suffered by the people of sensitivity and spirit who moved from one world to the other, and belonged to both, or to neither...
Surprised stretcher-bearers found him barely conscious, but showing no fractures or paralysis. Dumfounded doctors gave him morphine and atropine to ease his pain and keep him quiet. In a few minutes he was so restless that his arms and legs had to be strapped to the stretcher. X-rays showed that he had only a compression fracture of one vertebra in the middle of his spine...