Word: paines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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White Baby. One day he saw a bat hanging from the vines by her wings (upside down for a bat). Gritting her teeth as if in pain, she bent her lower body, making a sort of hammock out of her tail membrane. Soon tiny white feet appeared; then a small white body and crumpled white wings. The young bat dropped into the hammock. When it gave a faint squeak, its mother picked it up with her teeth and attached it to the fur near one of her breasts. She turned herself upside down (right side...
...well before he reaches combat. The first value to go is fidelity. Kent loves the wife he left in England and has told himself he will be faithful to her. But the night comes when, sodden with gin and boredom, he seduces a Eurasian girl, mistaking her gasps of pain for pleasure. Afterwards, he loathes himself and the girl...
Nothing Out of Order. The House vibrated with the procedural wrangle. Churchill held his ground, explaining that he was merely summarizing, not quoting, from the Labor Cabinet paper. Hapless Herbert Morrison yelped in pain, "I think it is unusual, doubtful in taste and constitutional propriety for the Prime Minis. ter to delve into the papers of his predecessors." But the House Speaker waved him down. Nye Bevan pounded in like the surf. Churchill's report, he cried, "may be a lying summary...
...When some of the boys at school began tossing beans from a broken bean bag, Fourth" Grader Richard A. Christensen of Hartford, Conn, thought one of the beans lodged in his ear. He told his mother, but he felt no pain and she could find no bean. That was four months ago. Last week Richard was vindicated. Doctors, treating him for earache, removed a sure-enough navy bean with a half-inch green sprout...
...star overact. The former is cast as the daughter of a Long Island millionaire, a soft mouthed old gent portrayed by Louis Calhern with die-cut precision. Miss McGuire suffers from an incurable heart ailment, a part for which she is physically fitted. Her expression is one of such pain, however, that she might have been better cast as a girl correspondent shipwrecked in a leper colony...