Word: paines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leads to flubs, which Frequent Partner Dwight Eisenhower calls "Hagerty Drives"). Hagerty was genuinely fond of Willkie. But his memories of the mismanaged Willkie train make White House Press Secretary Jim Hagerty, who has come to know more about running a tram than most railroad presidents, writhe in professional pain. The Willkie train often pulled out of wayside stations with reporters still standing on the tracks, and Wendell Willkie, thinking they were voters, waved farewell from the rear platform. When Jim Hagerty was press secretary to Tom Dewey a few years later, an officious Dewey aide ordered a train...
There is no hero-merely one character who, by chance, survives most of the others. Like the rest, Lieut. Hans Teichmann is sketchily drawn; nothing is told of his background, and-except for his sensations when he is drunk, or in rut, or in pain-little of his thoughts. He is brave; some of the others are cowardly, but courage and the lack of it do not matter; nor does brutality or kindness. The meaninglessness of war swallows everything. West German Novelist Ott is writing about men engulfed by the dark millennium Yeats foretold when "Things fall apart; the centre...
Much of Thackeray's hauteur was put on to conceal the violent, sudden spasms of pain that came from his malfunctioning stomach and bladder. Much was a disguise for his sensitivity and loneliness. The rest was a sort of game. He was proud of being a great gourmet-like his friend Lord Houghton. who died murmuring: "My exit is the result of too many entrees." He was a wit; once he greeted a quack doctor with "a very low bow" and the words: "I hope, sir, that you will live longer than your patients." He tempered the generosity...
...stupid if not downright insane, the "issue" which the film discusses is no issue at all. We are expected to feel a grudging admiration for this Colonel Nicholson as he suffers, and makes his men suffer, for his little point of principle. However, anybody who hates the waste of pain and misery is likely to find his admiration somewhat more grudging than the author expects...
Over the past year, some Britons have said some harsh public things about their Queen. In their opinion, Elizabeth was too "aloof"; her stilted speechmaking was "a pain in the neck." Neither Queen nor court made any reply. Last week the time came for the monarch's Christmas Day broadcast, and for the first time, the speech was televised. It was the Queen's first personal TV appearance in Britain, and she went to great pains to prove her critics wrong...