Word: paines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...barred it with nationalistic laws. The government oil monopoly, Petrobras, can legally hire the services of foreign experts and drilling companies, but it cannot grant concessions or sell shares to foreigners. Because of this self-inflicted shortage of capital and know-how, the Brazilian search for oil has been painfully slow. Last week's strike, made with the help of a Texas drilling firm hired by Petrobras, eased the pain. By itself the well is only a drop in the barrel of Brazil's oil needs. But it lies in a vast, geologically uniform sedimentary basin, and heralds...
...care for her Benedetto went hungry and in rags. In the hospital Maddalena grew worse, and wrenching spasms of pain made her scream again and again "Ammazzatemi! [Kill...
...operation in which the scalpel (leucotome) makes a series of highly destructive stabs through unoffending brain tissue before the surgeon can feel sure he has cut the nerve bundles that join the thalamus (probably the seat of basic anxiety) to the frontal lobes of the cortex (where anxiety and pain are felt intellectually). Los Angeles' Dr. Tracy J. Putnam has devised a way of driving two hollow needles precisely into the chosen nerve bundles. These are then destroyed by seeds of radon (a radioactive gas) dropped down the needles...
...continually "re-trueing" himself to nature, Marin avoided the last pitfall of great artists: pride. He loved life and enjoyed art to the last. His best biographer, MacKinley Helm, was with him a few days before his death, and tried to comfort him in his pain: " 'But think what it has meant, Mr. Marin,' I said, 'think what it mounts up to to have been painting past eighty and getting better and better...
...recalled reading somewhere that "X ray and radium are no good for cancer." Friends recommended a healer, and she began the salve treatment. At first the lesion was only the size of a pencil eraser; after two years it had ulcerated her whole cheek. When she complained of extreme pain, the healer said: "That's fine. The salve's working, drawing out the cancer." When the woman finally got to Duke, her entire cheek was affected from eye to chin, and she died...