Word: paines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...federal amusement tax on movie tickets has been a burden to exhibitors ever since it was instituted as a wartime measure (10% in 1917, 20% in 1944). It became a bigger pain in the box office when television caught on. Last month Loris Gillespie, a theater owner in Okanogan, Wash. (pop. 2,000), decided to fight back. He advertised "Honor or Donation Night," invited patrons to pay what they pleased to a girl in the lobby instead of paying the box-office rate...
Then one day, working on a customer's coat, Govind was horrified to discover that he had sewed his fingertip to the cloth and didn't even feel it. Another day he smelled burning flesh, saw his own toes pressed against a flatiron, yet felt no pain. When the doctors cleared up the mystery, Govind had to swap his tradesman's heaven-on-earth for what he was sure would be leper's hell...
Chaim Weizmann of Motol. Russia, son of Osher the timber merchant and Rachel, stood before the Knesset in Jerusalem, taking the oath of office as Israel's first President in 2,000 years. In pain, his eyes seeing dimly through cataracts, he stumbled over the biblical phraseology in his Hebrew address, interjected: "I can't go on." But go on he did, to the end of the address and for almost four lonely and physically painful years afterward. One morning last week, a few days before his 78th birthday, his heart stopped, and Chaim Weizmann, the man, died...
...very short time, the machine can step up a heartbeat slowed to a dangerous 25 counts per minute to its normal 90. The current running through the resistant thick outer skin causes only a mild twitching of the chest, but no pain or burning...
...Girdany's child patients ranged from 14 months to eleven years old. Some had ulcers of the stomach, some of the duodenum. There were 25 girls and 20 boys, and nearly all told the familiar story of feeling intense pain when hungry, often in the middle of the night, and of getting relief after a meal. A few had had recurrent vomiting spells instead of pain -possibly a sign of ulcers that are otherwise overlooked...