Word: paines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...important military work, she can promise them a snappy uniform-forest green blouse and skirt, a snappy cap with a scarlet chin strap, a scarlet muffler for accent on the Marines' traditional color. Wives of Marines are barred. Marriage to a Marine after induction is also forbidden, on pain of being dropped from the Corps. But marriage to Army, Navy or Coast Guard...
Soap operas, the joy and pain of millions of U.S. radio listeners, have never sudsed up the English air. But for months now, though English ears cannot hear the program (it is short-waved away for all the fest of the world to hear), the august, government-controlled British Broadcasting Corp. has had a soap opera. Its title: Front-Line Family...
...Acting Medical Officer (unpaid), Monsarrat has seen more than his share of pain and of that conduct of men in pain which is one of war's few compensations. He is perhaps at his best in communicating the simple grandeur, purposefulness and comradeship of a great number of vessels spaced and moving upon constant danger. H. M. Corvette is a quick cleaning-up, obviously, of spasmodic, hurried jottings in a notebook. It promises England a fine writer, when more time is had for writing...
...deck, got into a lifeboat. Said he: "My head began to grow very, very large and I couldn't sit up and I commenced to throw up in the boat." His head felt "as large as a chair." Later he had hand tremors, a "pendulum pain" in the left side of his head, wrist weakness, stiff hands with palms that felt very thick. After treatment on Long Island he felt better, did not have his headaches so regularly. Said he: "As soon as I am healed, I propose to go back...
...view of the doctor shortage, many drug advertisements and newspaper editorials last week suggested conserving doctors' valuable time. Some A.M.A. pointers on where to draw the line: In case of abdominal pain, laxatives should be avoided and if the pain lasts more than four hours, a doctor should be called; if a child sniffles, he probably has only a cold and it is nothing to worry about; if he has a sore throat, fever or delirium, a doctor should be summoned...