Word: paines
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...thin, grey-haired man lurched forward, his shirtsleeved arms outstretched, his face askew with horror. With a cry of pain he pointed to a small boy in the silent group before him. "Get out!" he shouted...
...James Messenger, 11 of Youngstown, Ohio, heard a car skidding toward him on an icy street but stood at his post to flag some other children back. As the children obeyed, the car hit Jimmy and broke both his legs. "Despite his pain," says his citation, "when a traffic officer reached him, James's first thought was to ask if the [other] children were safe...
...first D.P. ship to dock in Boston. I stood by helplessly while Ann interviewed the new Americans, who were overjoyed to hear an American speaking their language." According to one correspondent. Ann passes the supreme test: "She can get an overdue or inaccurate expense account cleared up with less pain than any secretary in the country." Another veteran secretary is Mary McDowall Stoll, who has been with TIME'S Detroit bureau through the past 20 years. She first came to TIME in 1934 as an switchboard operator. Bureau Chief Fred Collins describes her as a person "who does...
...young French cure de campagne in his first-and last-parish. In terror because, as he says, "I knew nothing about my fellow man," he retreats for longer and longer periods into prayer. When prayer comes hard, he fasts. From too much fasting he grows weak. Troubled with mysterious pain of body and soul, he struggles helplessly with his practical responsibilities. The children of the village laugh at him, prank him ruthlessly. When he innocently tries to give spiritual advice to the worldly lord of the manor, that glacial aristocrat calls him crazy. Soon everyone seems to hate...
Thenceforward, the little priest lives like "a prisoner of the holy agony." He prays and prays. The pain in his stomach grows worse. One day he collapses, staring in terror and wonder at a vision of the face of Christ-"the face of a child, but without any lighting." A little later he succumbs to cancer of the stomach. He dies murmuring in ecstasy, "All is grace...