Word: paines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...open-air theater in Pompeii. Sunday he was up early in his room in Naples' Excelsior Hotel, bordering on the magnificent bay where the flagship of the U.S. Mediterranean fleet lay at anchor. After breakfast, as he prepared for the long flight back to Washington, he complained of pain around his heart. Sherman, who had never been known to have anything more serious than a cold in his life, dismissed it as indigestion, but his wife insisted on calling a doctor. Five hours later, a second attack struck, and death came to Forrest Percival Sherman...
...heart, Karen hated men. Men should be strong, brave, austere; yet her crippled professor father had cringed before pain, screaming shrilly on his deathbed: "I won't die, I won't, I won't, I won't!" From that frightening experience, the pale English girl fashions her own neurotic design for loving-"to humiliate or be humiliated...
...Cross man: "I've seen the Korean starve to death. I've seen him freeze to death. I've seen him burned by napalm, mangled by bombs, crippled by bullets. I've seen doctors chop off his leg with only a cigarette to kill the pain, but I haven't heard a word of complaint yet. Accepting misfortunes without complaint or bitterness, he expects others to do the same. It can make him the most cruel creature in the world...
Matter of the Moment. These letters destroy two other romantic legends that have grown up about Keats. One is that he died from the pain caused by the vicious reviews the British literary magazines gave his early poem Endymion. The Keats revealed here was much too hardy to let a few brutal words break him. He wrote: "This is a mere matter of the moment-I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death...
...pancreas (the big gland which produces insulin and digestive juices). The same had been true in 25 of Majoska's autopsied cases. This disorder, or "acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis," is far from rare on the U.S. mainland. There it may strike at any hour, waking or sleeping, but usually pain gives a longer warning before a crisis develops, and more patients recover than...