Word: paines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scholar,*Monty, who got an honorary doctor of laws degree from Columbia's President Grayson Kirk, gave a lecture on "Education for Leadership." Said he: "I'm for beating the bad boys-not the girls ... A boy cannot be expected to imagine . . . the misery and pain he has the power of inflicting on others ... A good beating with a cane can have a remarkable sense of awakening on the mind and conscience of a bad boy. Not to administer such chastisement . . . is in effect a sort of cruel neglect...
...amazing it is, Mr. President," Dirksen continued, "that when a man lies in pain in a hospital, to send him a message at once so cynical and so brutal. Where are the common charities, after all, Mr. President? How bad must be the evil acids eating at the soul if finally they stir in such a way our passions and our tempers . . . Mr. President, there is fever and there is pain. The least we could do in an effort to be charitable would be to recess the Senate, in consonance with the suggestions made by eminent medical authority. When Senator...
...born in other's pain, And perish...
...lighted torches. One of them stumbled. A tree flared up with a whoosh. In panic, others threw their torches away. In a moment the yard became an oil-soaked pyre. The impregnated sawdust blazed like napalm, clinging to raw flesh, burning and spreading. The crowd, roaring with fear and pain, ran from side to side in the narrow schoolyard. But there was no escape: three of the walls were 10 feet high; the only exit was a narrow gate. It was over in 20 minutes: 33 died, hundreds more were badly burned...
...this hazard, Drs. Glenn and Artusio went back to a 100-year-old medical observation that had never been put to practical use, i.e., the fact that when the ether of ordinary anesthesia is wearing off, surgery can still go on, because for a while the patient feels no pain...