Word: paines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...later, Preston told another officer why he had chosen McCloy as staff aide. "One day at Fort Ethan Allen, I walked behind him after he had been riding. I could see blood all over his pants. I said to myself, any man who could keep riding with that much pain must be a damn good officer...
...Announcing that "this is going to break your heart," Judge Samuel Joseph forbade Probation Violator Joseph Larusso, 22, to enter the Bronx on pain of going to prison for three years...
...showed things like grasshoppers hopping into scarlet immensities and bushes brandishing their thorns at green skies. The portrait was equally harsh. Posed against a livid yellow background, Maugham sat with folded arms beneath a fringe of tropical palms. His jut-jawed old face seemed to betray a struggle between pain and hauteur...
...Doctors now think that perhaps as many as a third of the 7,500,000 joint-sore U.S. victims of arthritis and other rheumatic diseases have trouble that is primarily "psychogenic," i.e., caused by the emotions. The pain is just as real as if the victim had a physical form of the disease; sometimes the psychogenic rheumatic has inflammations and changes in the blood that show up in laboratory tests, and sometimes not-just as victims of psychosomatic stomach trouble sometimes have ulcers that can be seen in X rays, sometimes have nothing at all to show the doctor...
Last week, without any explanation, the Federal District government forbade minstrels to play on buses, on pain of jail or fine. But the order had a hole in it. Hereafter, it read, drivers must stop their buses and call a cop whenever the music starts...