Word: paines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dons Delight, Knox makes a personal appearance, but his remarks are only indicated on the printed page by a series of dots. His conversation is not always as reserved as that, but when he does intervene with a witticism, his silent laughter suggests apology or even pain, rather than amusement...
...slither away. It will be dark. Before you understand the meaning of the journey, I may not be there, my hands may have slipped from yours. It will not matter. For when you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wise...
...Stories by Nelson Algren, Erskine Caldwell, Paul Horgan, Albert Maltz, Jean Stafford and Wallace Stegner deal with such basic human situations as the feelings of parents as they take a dead baby to the cemetery, the comic tangle of a farm hand who gets into trouble while courting, the pain of a girl recuperating from an accident. These writers offer hope that the short story in the U.S. still has a lively future...
...speeches, reports, official investigations and persistent probing by the press. Not so in the case of the AEC. All definite figures about its performance-from laboratories and uranium mines to finished atom bombs-are beyond the reach of the public. The men who possess the facts are forbidden on pain of death (Atomic Energy Act of 1946) to communicate them. For all the taxpayer knows, the AEC may be dropping his money down a bottomless hole...
...dispute had an acute and unfavorable impact all over Latin America. When RFC policy began to hurt Bolivia, every other one-crop country in the hemisphere felt vicarious pain. Chile worried about copper, Peru about tuna, Venezuela about oil, Uruguay about wool, Cuba about sugar. It was not hard to fan nationalist resentment against the hard Yankee trader. Last week Bolivians canvassed the possibility of charging the U.S. with "economic aggression" under the agreement signed at Bogot...