Word: paines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although Harvard and Radcliffe students meet together for classes and hour exams, the custom of holding final examinations separately has prevailed in most courses, and this is an inconvenience which many professors feel is "a terrible pain in the neck." However, this is one change which would probably be met with violent reaction from the Radcliffe student body...
...diamond-heavy right hand jackhammered treble chords between beats; three saxes, an electric guitar, bass and drums came down hard on each syllable. Six extra loudspeakers hyped up the rainbarrel acoustics of the Dallas hall known as the Sportatorium, boosted the big noise to the threshold of pain. The kids spilled out into the aisles to rock and roll, but were herded back to their seats by a squad of 26 cops...
...will see that everything is a lie, You will see that there is no love . . . Even though you are gnawed with pain, Never expect any help, Nor a friendly hand, nor a favor...
...patient a scalpel. Squinting belly wards, without the aid of a mirror, slender (137 Ibs.) Dr. Ohmura made a 2-in. vertical incision, helped Takahashi suture the blood vessels. Then, said Ohmura, he sliced into the abdominal muscle, proceeding "exactly as with several hundred appendectomies I have performed." The pain caused by his own finger probing into the wound made him feel faint, but Ohmura fished out the diseased appendix anyway, then "with sweat rolling down my face I gasped to Takahashi, 'Sensei [teacher], let's take a break...
Virgil: "Who are these that seem so overcome with pain?" And Virgil answers: "This miserable mode the dreary souls of those sustain, who lived without blame, and without praise. They are mixed with that caitiff choir of the angels, who were not rebellious, nor were faithful to God; but were for themselves...