Word: paines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they said. They and the Colonel crawled into a ditch by the road, fired when the tank was ten feet away. The tank began smoking and the German crew, screaming with pain, started to climb from the turret. Colonel Stephenson said: "My men cut them down one by one with rifles as they climbed...
...have not been out of a war zone for seven years, but I don't think I ever really knew how the soldier felt until I was wounded and had to lie on the battlefield alone and in pain, as so many have done before...
...something over 70,000 people paid one peso each to view El Fakir. They included 25 doctors (a vacationing U.S. doctor tried to wiggle El Fakir's toes, caused him much pain), five bull fighters, 65 Mexican cinema actors, one ex-President (Portes Gil), two boxers, two wrestlers, and a lady editor from the erstwhile antagonist Novedades, who wrote: "After knowing him I have been enchanted." A radio station broadcast reports of El Fakir's condition and a movie theater combined a newsreel of El Fakir with Disney's Bambi...
Senator Alben Barldey of Kentucky clutched convulsively at his pride and howled in pain when he learned that Montana's Burton K. Wheeler had contended that Kentucky has a desert training center. "A desert in country like Kentucky!" Barkley cried. "Why, there is more sand and scrub in the City Park in Butte . . . than there is in the whole of the old Kentucky home." He found a transcript of the Montanan's remarks, fell to studying, presently announced that Wheeler must have had Fort Knox's cookery school in mind and meant to say "dessert...
Tally of Death. To Russia, lean-ribbed after 27 months of pain and sacrifice, victory tasted sweet. It was hard to see towns go up in smoke, but it was good to know that in the blazing fires Hitler's hope of victory burned to dead ashes. The Donets Basin, Russia's Pennsylvania-om-Kansas, was free. The first train of Donets Basin coal reached Moscow. Red Army units were only 40-odd miles from the Dnieper, only 80-odd miles from Kiev...