Word: paines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McKee City roofer, agreed to have her fifth baby before the cameras. At 1:30, the baby's head became visible on the screen. After a few more minutes Philadelphia Obstetrician John C. Ullery began to think about using forceps to speed the birth and ease the pain. Mrs. Gallagher, wide awake and sipping Coca-Cola, had had only light caudal anesthesia...
...Fifteen hundred were evacuated . . . by air, the remaining [cases] either being minor, or the men refused to turn in, despite the pain and danger of permanent injury, in their desire to fight their way out with their comrades. This sorting of frostbite . . . was almost brutally done, as we needed every man capable of bearing a rifle on the fight down [to Hungnam], I personally passed on all controversial cases, using as my criteria the feet of the 5th Regimental surgeon. He refused to be evacuated although he could not walk without great pain, but insisted on riding in an ambulance...
...cannot be acquired with ease, but perishes unless it is scrpulously cared for. It is preserved for four years by a delicate interplay of influences, not forces, which serve to keep the mind in a shifting, uncertain, unsatiated, insatiable condition called "education." This condition creates a great deal of pain and conflict; some people refuse to submit to it at all, and many more flee from it at various stages...
...traveling show including such abstractions, he observed that they "evoke all kinds of muffled after-sensations, but not individuated images in the mind's eye. It is as if vision had been converted to gastrointestinal equivalents, so that when the doctor asks you just where you feel the pain, the best you can say is that 'it's down here somewheres...
...girls, reported the Literary Gazette, were complaining bitterly about the standardization of dolls in Soviet toy stores. 'All the dolls, they said, had exactly the same faces, hairdos and dresses. ¶ A new decree of Moscow's city fathers warned parents of all Bolshevik bobby-soxers, on pain of a $50 fine, to keep their children off the streets after 10 p.m in winter, 11 p.m. in summer. The decree forbade shopkeepers to sell the youngsters liquor or tobacco, and ordered the kids themselves to quit skating in the streets, to stop hitching rides on the outside...