Word: paines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back his crop of red hair, he said: "I might as well tell you the whole story." He had killed his mother too, he said. Why? He had had a bitter childhood, he wanted her money, his father mistreated her and he wanted to put her out of her pain. After she fell asleep one night, Courtney had dropped chloroform on a wad of cotton which he held over her nose until she died. Said Courtney calmly: "I had an Oedipus complex...
...year's fine array of pace-setters, and now he is expected to have the field all to himself. Just at present he is churning up the chlorinated waters of the swimming pool, but after this weekend he will enter the rowing scene, probably with a good deal of pain, since a winter's work swimming leaves hands in no condition for hard pulling on a sweep...
...Many headaches have psychic causes. One woman had two operations to relieve a severe pain on the left side of the head. No relief. When doctors questioned her closely, they found the headaches started when her husband had slapped her on the left side of the face...
...home medicine shelf, as well as in the doctor's bag, acetylsalicylic acid-is the No. 1 headache drug. Last month it was the first drug to be price-fixed by the Office of Price Administration. It does not cure headaches, but acts as a pain killer by deadening the nerves...
...industrialist; got eyefuls and skinfuls of U.S. boomtime living, Manhattan Prohibition and Naziism; watched one son grow dully dependable and the other flirt with Naziism; and in general covered the uneven 20th-century scene with all the mountain-goat agility and twice the aptitude for human pleasure and pain of Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd (TIME...