Word: paines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gate of a Rio hospital one morning last week, a young woman brought a pain-racked old man holding a bloodstained towel to his face. "For the love of God, open up!" she cried. "My father needs a doctor!" The gate stayed shut...
...depressing sign of what our culture has come to. We have been fed such a diet of peace of mind and peace of soul, and been provided with so many guides to confident living, that we apparently can no longer grasp the meaning of spiritual anguish or pain in our drama . . . And so there will be no Living Rooms on Broadway; there will be only Solid Gold Cadillacs...
...GREEK PASSION, by Nikos Kozcmtzakis. This parable of the Christian challenge and Christ's suffering, played out by Greek Orthodox characters in a Turkish setting, was drenched with irony, pain and life, ingredients that are not apt to win even so good a writer as Kazantzakis the readership he deserves...
...tired, 78-year-old Pontiff was in his study working on a speech when he felt the first attack of pain. It began in his lower abdomen and rapidly became more and more intense. The old man lifted the phone...
Stretched out on his plain brass bed, retching in pain, the Pope seemed first to be suffering an appendicitis attack; then, as evidence of intestinal hemorrhage appeared, the doctors feared a perforated ulcer. X rays were ordered. The sacrament of Extreme Unction was administered. Gradually the pain began to subside...