Word: paines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Republicans, shot while napping, clutched hands to pain-stricken breasts. Cried New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges: "[The President] dangled before the eyes of the soldiers a gift of their own tax money. . . ." Cried Pennsylvania's Congressman J. William Ditter: "[The President's speech] degenerated into the official opening of the fourth term campaign...
...Unusually vigorous stomach contractions caused Tom to suffer cramping "hunger" pains. Pinches and pricking and electric shocks sufficient to cause intense pain to a man's skin had no effect on Tom's gastric mucosa. But when a spot on his stomach lining was stripped of its protecting mucus and sprinkled with mustard, it became very sensitive. Strong pressure with a glass rod or from a balloon inflated in his stomach to 1,500 cc. gave Tom a stomachache...
...summer of quick and seemingly easy victories, the whole nation seemed to be smiling. The soldiers at the front, 5,000 miles away, might be oppressed by loneliness and fear, might suffer pain and weariness, but few citizens at home could not help being optimistic...
...disaster.)" Napoleon III, unable to sit a horse (because of bladder trouble), his face rouged (to conceal his deathly pallor from his troops), followed close behind General MacMahon's doomed army. When MacMahon blundered into a German trap at Sedan, the Emperor mounted a horse despite his pain, rode along the firing line for hours seeking death. It never found him. At last, "muttering that they must stop the guns, that they must cease firing, that there must be no more bloodshed," Napoleon III surrendered with 80,000 men. Two months later Marshal Bazaine, whose faith in a defensive...
...ding-dongists," man's first words were based on the characteristic sounds made by objects when they are struck (e.g., the splash of water). The "bow-wowers" hold that man began talking by mimicking the sounds of nature. The "pooh-poohers" believe that instinctive cries of pain, surprise, love or the like were the original source of words. In 1930 British Physicist Sir Richard Paget got more scientific about it, argued that words originated in man's characteristic gestures of the tongue and lips (e.g., blowing air through the larynx while making the gestures of eating produces mnyum...