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Word: paines (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Williams's decision to present the reading in the first person, that is, I am Dylan Thomas and I am going to tell you about my boyhood, works only to his disadvantage. His style and personality seem so different from Thomas's; he lacks that sense of bitterness and pain that makes one feel that not only was Thomas bitingly ironic about the world, but also critical of his criticism of it. Thomas's readings transmitted the presence of a naked and passionate soul which Mr. Williams cannot hope to convey. Williams as entertainer seems to over-ride Thomas...

Author: By Gerald E. Bunker, | Title: A Boy Growing Up | 11/2/1957 | See Source »

...policy does not apply to emergency conditions. It is our policy and our earnest endeavor that no one in dental pain shall be turned away. We save time between our filling appointments so that we shall always be able to take care of emergencies. We also give high priority to the restorative programs which grow out of an emergency situation, such as root canal treatment after an acute abcess. In this way we handle a great many major dental problems: the urgent ones. James M. Dunning, D.D.S., Director, Dental Health Service...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEETH | 11/2/1957 | See Source »

...unwarily inspecting his flock of three sheep near his North Carolina mountain home. A few seconds later, Farmer Graham picked himself up, cut and bruised, some fifty feet down the mountainside. The winner: a surly Suffolk ram, scoring three hits, no errors. Said Billy, from his bed of pain: "I turned the other cheek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 28, 1957 | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

...relations with France he said that we should be prepared to stand by as a "helpful friend" while France experiences the inevitable pain of "adjustment to loss of power" in Algeria. He sharply criticized as "naive" Sen. John Kennedy's proposal that the U.S. work through the U.N. to achieve Algerian independence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Acheson Advocates Recognition, Seat in UN for Communist China | 10/26/1957 | See Source »

Last week the Census Bureau handed in its final report, and the sure thing gurgled down the drain. New York's population is now 7,795,471, down 96,486 in seven years. Mayor Wagner refused to accept the figures. Then the state attorney general eased the pain by ruling that state aid would not be reduced unless the next regular count confirmed the decline. Net result of the gamble: a $1,500,000 loss to the municipal pocketbook and a stiff blow to municipal pride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Big Gamble, Net Loss | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

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