Word: paines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Michigan's bow-tied Governor G. Mennen Williams, running for a sixth term, revealed that his pretty campaign helpmate, wife Nancy, was bedded with a rare disease, "infectious polyneuritis," which results in severe pain and extreme difficulty in walking...
...Pain in Maine. With agonizing reluctance, Dwight Eisenhower agreed to let Adams go. But he could not bring himself to ask for the resignation himself. To Meade Alcorn, longtime Adams friend and a fellow Dartmouth graduate, went the unenviable assignment of telling Adams. "You've got to handle it," said Ike. "It's your job, the dirtiest I can give you." Alcorn was delayed only by a frantic last-minute call from Maine's Republican Senator Frederick Payne, who insisted that, because both he and Adams had accepted Goldfine gifts, to impute dishonesty by firing Adams would...
...that carried Charlie Goren past Culbertson was sharpened by the rough edges of poverty in his Philadelphia childhood. The son of Russian-born Jewish immigrants, he grew up in a brawling district of "Jews, Irish and Irish." Charlie made up for small size with pugnacity, endurance, and indifference to pain. Recalls his brother Edward, a Philadelphia clothing distributor: "Charlie walked around with mumps for two weeks and never knew it. People kept telling my mother how healthy he looked, fat face...
...tricks as running through ankle-deep sand and sprinting up and down an 80-ft. sand dune 40 times a day or more. To give Elliott the energy to run 25 miles a day, Cerutty stoked him with oats, nuts and fruits. He urged his pupil to "thrust against pain and be contemptuous...
...though he is hardened against the lung-searing pain of the mile, Australia's running machine may not be immune to the soft lure of the dollar. Last week a U.S. sports promoter named Leo Leavitt bragged that he had offered Elliott $248,000 for a two-year tour as a pro. Elliott admitted that he was thinking over the offer: "Wouldn't you if $248,000 were at stake?" But sportsmen Down Under took heart from Elliott's phoned statement to the Brisbane Sunday Mail: "I have my sights on a place on the Australian team...