Word: paines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parts of my body, especially to the more sensitive organs. In order that there might not be any visible traces of this torture, I was covered with a blanket, and, while they were torturing me, music was played over a high powered loud-speaker to drown my screams of pain and despair...
Dramatic Improvements. Beginning 18 months ago, Dr. Ivy and a team of helpers tried out Krebiozen on 22 cancer sufferers, some of whom were considered hopeless and "terminal" (dying). In general, the effect of the drug was to diminish or abolish pain, improve the appetite and "feeling tone" (subjective well-being), and arrest or retard the malignant tumors. Nine of the subjects died, but even they showed improvement before death, and some of them died of other causes (e.g., heart disease, pneumonia and other lung involvements). Two of the 13 still alive last week showed no remaining evidences of cancer...
...there is pain, Alvarez believes in giving drugs to the dying patient with the utmost generosity. What if he does become addicted? It will make no difference in his grave. Moreover, naked suffering brings on death more quickly than morphine and other analgesics...
...life as a "carny" was not easy, and a lot of it was painful. While he was learning to eat fire, his mouth and face were a mass of blisters, but no one even suggested that he should see a doctor. During the worst of it, he kept his mouth filled with cracked ice. Before long he took on sword swallowing and its modern refinements: his big moment came when he swallowed a lighted neon tube. Still later, he took on mind reading. One routine that proved too much for him was the Human Pincushion act (sticking pins through...
Hayden burgeons, but he still has a lot more to learn about the wide world. Some of it he learns with pain and dismay from Professor Lorenzo Lundsgard, lately of Hollywood. A new, if feebler, edition of that pious fraud, Elmer Gantry, with a touch of Berzelius Windrip, the magnificent Lorenzo plans a Technicolored crusade to convert America to the gospels of Culture and Leadership, meanwhile scooting across Europe and sweeping up historical tidbits as with a vacuum cleaner. Lorenzo also sweeps up Olivia. Hayden falls into the eager arms of Roxy Eldritch, a freckled, redheaded home-town girl with...