Word: paines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lyndon Johnson of the Texas hills knows water's value and drought's pain. "In my country," he said as he signed the Water Resources Planning Act last week, "sometimes you can't get a glass of water even out of the rivers-much less out of the restaurants...
...moment." He returned with Goldberg, his wife and son, Robert, 24, in tow. The President briskly told reporters that Goldberg was his man for the U.N. Then, as his wife stood by, her eyes sad, Arthur Goldberg made a moving acceptance speech. "I shall not, Mr. President, conceal the pain with which I leave the court after three years of service. It has been the richest and most satisfying period of my career," he said. "Throughout my life I have been deeply committed to the rule of law. The law gives form and substance to the spirit of liberty...
...resetting the club right now, with the idea that Sandy won't be with us." So spoke disconsolate Buzzie Bavasi, the general manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, after doctors last April diagnosed the pain and swelling in Sandy Koufax' pitching elbow as a "traumatic arthritic condition" that flares up "under repeated stress...
...that the drug was an effective tranquilizer, but it had been withdrawn from the market after thousands of pregnant women who used it delivered malformed babies. "To our surprise," reported Dr. Sheskin in Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, "there was rapid subjective and objective improvement." Within eight to 48 hours, pain eased, skin lesions disappeared, and temperature returned to normal. Since then, a score of leprosy patients have been given thalidomide daily, with equally encouraging results...
...conceits abound in this book. "Get divorced while you're young," says one character to another. This is not funny. It is in the same key as that timeless anecdote of the Indian victim, trussed and scalped, who is asked bv his saviors if he is in any pain. "Only when I laugh," he says...