Word: paines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could deny that Ted was great, but some players, scores of sportwriters and not a few thousand fans thought that he was also a great pain in the neck. They rode him for blurting that his 1940 salary of $12,500 was chicken feed for a star of his magnitude, and for saying, in a rare moment of complete discouragement, that he would rather be a fireman than play baseball. The fans razzed him for seeming to loaf in the outfield, and for ignoring the tradition of tipping his cap to the applause after he had hit a home...
After 15 years as editor, Weyer is still as enthusiastic about a daffodil as about a dinosaur. For that reason, Constant Reader Kieran could write in the anniversary issue: "A regular reader ... is bound to obtain a liberal education in the natural sciences with no feeling of pain...
That craftsmanly joy in painting kept him working to the end, propped up in a wheelchair with a brush strapped to his arthritic fingers. Last week Manhattan gallerygoers could see the result of those last pain-racked hours: healthy, big-hipped servant girls looking as flushed and happy as if they had just stepped out of a steam bath...
...past two or three terms I have suffered in silence the pain of opening the CRIMSON in the morning only to read how rough things are for the poor girls at Radcliffe. The John Reed Club wants them admitted to Lamont Library, some other clubs want them admitted as members, etc., etc. What I would like to know is, what purpose are these so-called clubs organized for? If their aims have so deteriorated or were so insipid to begin with that they feel the emancipation of Radcliffe is their sole forte, then they do not belong at Harvard...
Guesswork in GobbledygooL The psychologists are worse, torn as they are between gestaltists, behaviorists, functionalists, reflexologists and other -ists. They expend their energies formalizing the obvious ("Although other sensations have various degrees of hedonic tone," says one textbook, "pain is notoriously unpleasant"). But the result of all their efforts, Standen insists, is that they cannot say anything really important about man. "It is possible to go clear through a course in psychology without ever hearing what the various virtues...