Word: paines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...antiseptic method requires that a doctor pierce the ears in his office. Mothers approve of this school more than the others. There are several doctors in the Square who pierce ears, and they charge between ten and fiteen dollars. The pain is usually slight, but since doctors are not used to the job, the results are often not too good. One girl who had her ears perced by the doctor found that the hole from the front of her ear did not quite meet the one from the back. So she allowed the openings to close up, and tried again...
...WHITE AMERICA thoughtfully and evocatively combines a series of dramatic readings to chronicle the Negro's legacy of pain, oppression and denial from the days of slavery to the present hour...
...wrist that almost tore off my finger." Brother Maurice tried to run, but was hit in the leg with an arrow. He got up again and ran on. "Kill him, kill him," a rebel screamed behind him. Another arrow struck him under the arm, bringing more blood than pain. Not everybody was as lucky. Jacques Bollaerts, 25, a former Belgian paratrooper, tried to shield one of the women as they ran. "Faster, Odette, I'm covering you," he cried just before he fell dead, hit in the head...
...begins on the night of Jan. 8, 1960, when Hodgins was alone in his apartment. One moment he was dictating a telegram on the telephone; then suddenly all he could say was "ab, ab," over and over. As the receiver slid from his paralyzed left hand, he felt no pain, no dizziness. But he knew that something terrible had happened. Later, in a $108-a-day Manhattan hospital room (the price included three nurses at $20 each), he found out how badly...
...book sears the mind; for a time, until the pain clears at the end, compassion becomes an agony of mocking laughter...