Word: paines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down, the healing valve tissues became scarred and failed to close. Instead of a one-way pulsing flow of blood, there was an unsteady flow with a backwash. For a dozen years the patient got along with rest and digitalis, but six months ago she became much worse. Anginal pain and failing strength forced her to stop working. Her future looked bleak indeed...
Third Round. In Accadia, Italy, 90-year-old Antonio Pirro went to the dentist with a pain in his jaw, found he was cutting a new set of teeth...
...doctrine of eternal damnation (he wrote) did not mean that man must behave himself lest he suffer torment in the afterlife, but was a poetically enlightening image which refined men's sensibility and hardened their stoicism before the intolerable truth that all human acts, all evils and all pain, are irremediable. What is done is done, and man must take the consequences with open eyes. Between Spanish stoicism and New England puritanism there was obviously a grim link, but behind Santayana's philosophy lies another traditional Spanish theme: that life is a dream...
...Aftermath. Grandier was seized, probed to the bone with a long needle for "devil's pain-free spots," put to the "question extraordinary" (a procedure in which the victim's legs were systematically splintered), adjudged guilty and burned at the stake...
...Lourdes, Godard grimaced in pain as hospital attendants carried him on a stretcher to the healing spring in the grotto. They lowered him into the water. A few moments later, Godard stood up, unassisted. "I'm cured!" he cried. "It's a miracle!" "You should be very thankful," said the attendant priest, Abbé Jeanson, "but are you really cured?" To prove his point, the exuberant pilgrim hopped & skipped around the priest...