Word: paines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Senses No. 6 through No. 9 are found easily by breaking down the sense of touch into five separate senses: "crude" touch, pressure, heat, cold and pain. (Some authorities list four: "true" touch, temperature, superficial pain and deep pain.) Says Author David W. Foerster, a third-year medical student (University of Oklahoma) who has made a special study of the subject: "Ordinarily, when we feel an object, we bring into play three or four of these senses simultaneously . . . When we touch a hot stove, we experience heat, pain, crude touch and perhaps pressure...
...Adams' orders large doses of heroin, morphine and paraldehyde had been administered to the ailing, 81-year-old widow during the long illness that preceded her death. Only the experts could say whether this medication had hastened her end or merely, as the defense contended, eased the pain of her inevitable passing. The more the experts talked, the less the laymen on the jury could be sure of anything...
...figure is elongated and primitively covered with a boxlike drape. But the head, feet and hands are done with expressive realism, the head forceful, the chin raised with authority and grandeur, the hands held out in eloquent plea and promise, the feet slightly dragging as if in pain, a reminder of the tragedy implicit in the dramatic origins of Christianity...
Carefully, the seamen raised the pain-racked Smith to the surface, rushed him to the recompression chamber at the U.S. Navy's Terminal Island yard. He was unconscious. Doctors put him on a bench inside the windowed, diving-bell-shaped chamber. With Smith went Diver William J. Biller, 33. long experienced in recompression emergencies, to help in the battle for life. With the chamber door slammed and bolted, Biller waited as compressed air began to shriek in. Soon the air pressure inside the tank built up to 73.4 Ibs. per sq. in.-the equivalent of the pressure...
...minded Roman Catholic Archbishop of Seville, who damned and damped down the gay traditional dances of his fun-loving people, banned their movies, shuttered their nightclubs; of a kidney ailment; in Madrid. His denunciation of Protestantism, and even of Franco's limited religious tolerance ("It causes one real pain to see the tolerance shown toward non-Catholic sects . . .") made him almost as unpopular with many of his fellow Catholics as with Protestants, eventually (1955) caused his diocesan duties to be shifted by the Vatican, in consultation with Franco, to another prelate...