Word: paines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Radioman Trippodi hung in his chute in excruciating pain. He had come down in a treetop near the peak of a steep, 4OO-ft. incline. Trying to unbuckle his harness, he slipped. His foot caught in the leg strap and he had hung head down, helpless. Next morning two of the flyers found him still hanging there. They cut him free, wrapped him in his parachute, and put him in a bed of spruce boughs; but they themselves were too weak to get him down the cliff...
...blubber, froze it intact, and bowled it across the snow to the bear. After a few suspicious licks, the hungry bear usually gulped it down. Soon the blubber melted, releasing the coiled splint and wounding the bear. In the second phase of the hunt, the bear loped off in pain, dropping bloody dung which its pursuer sometimes ate to keep his strength up. After a flight that sometimes lasted several days, the bear finally sank down in mortal exhaustion and submitted to the man's spear...
...neither a fool with a frozen smile, Nor a sad old toad in a cask of bile; He can dance with a shoe nail in his heel, And never a sign of his pain reveal...
...many ways it is an astonishing phenomenon; few areas of the world have experienced so much change with such little pain. Oil (plus natural gas) has been the catalyst. The presence of potential bonanzas under the soil inspired the beginnings of Texas industry; modern oil production (roughly one-quarter of the world's production) built it. And the steady stream of oil wealth, along with the income-tax generosity of the U.S. Government,† sprayed money off in dozens of different directions...
Hoping to "sound the alarm" about the continuing seriousness of appendicitis, Dr. Boyce has written a book, Acute Appendicitis and Its Complications (Oxford, $8.75). The first essential, he says, is still accurate diagnosis. And unfortunately, appendicitis does not always cause the textbook symptoms: e.g., nausea, pain and tenderness in the lower right-hand quarter of the belly. Pain may be felt anywhere in the abdomen, often above the navel, or even in the right shoulder. And appendicitis may hide under the symptoms of many other diseases...