Word: paines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second was, to back Hammarskjold's line-drawing plan. This way offered a chance to stop Nasser without causing public pain to Nasser's pathologically thin-skinned pride and his prestige as the unstoppable leader of Arab nationalism...
...left stump were joined. He could not move his lower limbs as much as a hundredth of an inch. He was anchored by weights and pins were inserted in the bone. Then for four weeks stump and foot were joined. The flap took. Kilpatrick could have saved himself great pain if he had simply asked the doctors to amputate the right foot. "But it's worth all this to a man," says Dr. Kelly, "to have a leg and be able to hobble...
...forefinger. His bravura passages are majestic with no hint of pounding, his pianissimos a wonder of velvety control. His flexible rhythm gives even the most familiar music unexpected tensions. As he plays, his faunlike face registers emotion like a mass of exposed nerve ends, winces in a spasm of pain when he hits one of his rare wrong notes...
Jesuit Gleason meets this problem by suggesting that the agony of hellfire is not something created by God at all, but rather that it grows out of the damned soul's eternal tension between love of self and love of God-and is much like the pain of schizophrenia. "We know that in this life the schizophrenic personality suffers greatly. Such a man believes that he is himself and someone else, [and] riven by this conflict he suffers as though devoured by himself. Now it is possible that the soul in Hell could feel this inner division with regard...
...Will. As his tortures grew more fierce, his courage and will to stay silent grew fiercer still. He was helped by the growing numbness to pain of a body already half dead. Eventually, the torturers flagged, and Alleg knew that he was winning: "I suddenly felt proud and happy not to have given way. I was convinced that I could still hold out . . . that I would not help them in their job of killing...