Word: paines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election-year deal with the Southern Senators on the enforcement issue, and the prospect infuriates him. In discussing it, his drawl tightens, the words shooting out singly and passionately; he is no longer the patient, understanding lobbyist. Before catching himself, and smiling at his anger, Higgs reveals both the pain and power of his commitment. His beliefs exiled him, but only by putting them into practice can he return home...
DYLAN. In his final years, Dylan Thomas mourned in drink the distance between himself and the height of his poetic powers. Sir Alec Guinness is just the actor to show the humor, insight and inner pain of the sinking...
LUTHER. Outraged by clerical abuses and tormented by physical pain, Luther had the strength to struggle with both. In this dramatic portrait, the imagery of his physical infirmities matches the force of his purpose...
Called affectionately the "eightfold way," from Buddha's list of eight virtues that lead to the cessation of pain, the theory is based on eight quantum numbers or fundamental properties that can be used to describe particles. The reasoning that supports the eightfold way is advanced quantum mechanics and beyond the understanding of the mathematically unanointed, but one of the predictions of the "way" was clear enough: a particle must exist that has a negative electric charge and a mass- of 1,676 million electron volts. It should have a life span of one ten-billionth of a second...
...more months he is ready for retirement, and he realizes ruefully that the firm "had taken the one idea of an old man, ignoring the pain out of which it was born, and now he was no longer necessary to them." His three-year-old life is over-and in both its brevity and its pain, it can stand for the life of any man who has committed himself too late to living...