Word: paines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will wager a small hogshead of Wisconsin cheese that Joe McCarthy's efforts to get that Army dentist to open a little wider please have drawn wails of pain from half the bleeding hearts in the country. Is the U.S. Army a sacred institution, that it feels it has the right to conceal a bad administrative decision from inquiry by the legislature? In giving the Army a lesson in the Constitutional facts of life, Senator McCarthy is a better democrat than his critics...
Like a doctor catching too late a set of cancer cases, Author de Lima charts the pain without holding out any fresh hope for the patients. And as she paces up and down her characters' doomed and twisted minds, she sometimes seems to mistake all of life for an. enormous sick ward...
...similar manner, and the application is sent to the General Service Office in the basement of University Hall, where these numbers are fed into an always disinterested, but never inaccurate IBM machine. It quickly belches forth a white card containing all the information which the applicant had so pain-stakingly provided...
...witness is not the ultimate judge of the tendency of an answer to incriminate him. He can be required, on pain of contempt punishment, to disclose enough to show a real possibility that an answer to the question will tend, rightly or wrongly, to convict him of a crime. Manifestly, this is a delicate business. The witness must not be required to prove his guilt in demonstrating the incriminating character of the answer sought. A judge must decide when the witness has gone far enough to demonstrate his peril...
...alarming rate, Felix Ducotel's general store in the French penal colony is soon to be closed by Henri Trochard, the prototype of a heartless capitalist. To add insult to bankruptcy, Ducotel's daughter is hopelessly in love with Trochard's nephew, who can only marry on the pain of disinheritance. At this point, it might be said with some justification that this is nothing new, even under the Guiana sun. Actually, when Spewack introduces the convicts, he provides both a new twist and the play's central theme...