Word: paines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hospital and have a rib and half of one lung removed. After that he was able to return only occasionally to the Senate, and he had a presentiment that he would never really return to active duty. His wife was dying of cancer. Torn with his own pain, carrying the problems of the world on his bulky shoulders, he ministered to her and nursed her. In June 1950 he buried her, continued alone on interminable trips to the hospital for treatment...
Last January his doctor reported that Vandenberg had rallied, could expect soon to return to Capitol Hill. But then he suffered another relapse. He was confined to his bedroom in the old family homestead in Grand Rapids, rarely knowing a conscious hour without pain, growing weaker day by day. There, last week, Senator Arthur Vandenberg, at 67, found his own peace with righteousness...
Willem de Kooning is the sort of painter who gives most people a pain: superficially his pictures look like scribbles any kid could do. They are not really like that at all; the difference between De Kooning's work and mere doodling is enough to make him one of America's liveliest advance-guard artists. Despite his reputation and the fact he is all of 47, De Kooning has had only two one-man shows; the second opened in a Manhattan gallery last week. "I haven't felt ready for exhibitions," he explains...
...thought with horror that sometimes it is easier to resist actual pain and bodily wounds than the wave of sickness that assails one's stomach at a foul smell. I dreaded the possibility that I might weaken, and through God's mercy I was able to concentrate upon God, and it pleased God to fill my cell with an infinitesimal but overbrimming small part of His great glory...
...spite of a broken foot protested violently against evacuation. "It ain't broken, it ain't broken," he cried to a medical corpsman. "I'm going back up!" The corpsman applied pressure to the foot, moved the broken bones. The sergeant's face contorted with pain, but he uttered no sound. The corpsman shook his head, then ordered the fighter out of combat...