Word: paines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chatty letter to Columnist Leonard Lyons, Ernest ("Papa") Hemingway, 51, admitted that events in Korea had not given him itchy feet: "Have no intention of mixing in this one, unless it spreads to Europe where I speak the language and could be some good . . . War gets to be a pain in the [deletion] when you have been going to them since you were...
...think it over for a week. ¶ In Birmingham, Ala., big, blustery Police Commissioner Eugene ("Bull") Connor, who had been arresting Communists on charges of vagrancy, thought there ought to be a more specific charge. He pushed a new ordinance through the city commission, banishing Communists from Birmingham on pain of a maximum $100 fine, 180-day jail sentence and constant rearrest. A Communist, said Bull's ordinance, was anyone caught talking to a Communist in a "nonpublic place," or anyone who passed out literature that could be traced, even remotely, to a Communist hand...
...does not "remember" these things because she is unconscious, but according to dianetics her reactive mind records them all in an engram. Later, the crash of an overturned chair and the sound of running water might make the engram "key-in" to her analytical mind, vaguely bring back the pain of the kicks or actually make...
...skipping from one point on the time track to another, the patient eventually relives a variety of painful experiences. In so doing, he may reel from the relived pain of a blow on the head, double up with stomach cramps, sweat or shiver in terror. Once these painful engrams have been run through the waking analytical mind, says Hubbard, they lose their "charge"-their power of evil. The analytical mind puts them in a dead file like so many closed accounts. The final goal of dianetics-in its own jargon-is to make the patient a "clear," a person whose...
...Forceps Pains. Frank Dessler, an office manager at 20th Century-Fox, had dabbled in dianetics and was persuaded to audit an actor's wife who had suffered from migraine. Says Dessler: "She was suffering a severe headache, but it wasn't like migraine. It seemed to be sharp and on either side of the head. Finally, she actually experienced birth. She crouched on the couch in foetal position with her head between her knees." She attributed the pain she felt to the pull of the forceps on her head. Having relived her birth, her migraine disappeared...