Word: paines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poem concerns the pain experienced on losing close friends, transcribed to Mary's feelings at the crucifixion of her son. Alfred never dwells upon the morbid aspects of death, however. On occasion, he visits old women at a rest home in the area. "It's like a prison for them," he says. "One delightful women there the nurses consider 'silly' because she refuses candy and won't speak. When I realized she spoke French, she replied with a snort, 'I hate the stuff' and we had a fine conversation...
...Fakir and Mystic, had just finished his first act at Symphony Hall. It began with a display of long pins and longer knives which members of the audience examined for proper honing. After putting himself into what he identified as a cataleptic trance, Bey declared himself insensible to pain and asked those on stage to prove it by sticking the pins into...
Stampede to the Stockpens. The loudest cries of pain last week came from the cattlemen. Nationwide, the on-the-hoof price for beef cattle of all grades has dropped about 30% since the post-Korea high last spring. A fortnight ago the Omaha cattle market saw its worst break in three years, as choice steers slipped to 23.4? a lb.; a year ago, such steers brought 34?. The basic reason for the cattle-price decline is that beef animals are in long supply; by Agriculture Department estimates, the nation's cattle population has grown some 20% in the past...
...woman, Mrs. Virginia Morton, 42, was dead. But the man, a wiry, sandy-haired fellow of 39, was alive. Presently he moaned, sat up and became a suffering human again. In pain, in fear, in sorrow, he told a story the cops had already guessed. His name was Noble-Francis R. Noble-and he had lived with the woman for years. He loved her, he said. But they had been beaten by the huge and faceless city...
...Robertson had a lot of men & women in his office complaining of indigestion before he noticed something odd. Nearly all the symptoms (acidity, distension, belching, nausea, vomiting) might be alike, but there was one consistent difference: the men had pain from the beginning of their illness, the women had all sorts of discomfort without actual pain, and nearly all were married...