Word: paines
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...power, the Cardosos were notorious for winning "confessions" from the regime's prisoners. Their prize persuader was the picana electrica, an "electric needle" that delivered a 12,000-volt jolt. Applied to the lips, soles of the feet or genitals, the picana made the victim convulse with shrieking pain, while leaving no marks. "With the picana" Juan Cardoso once boasted, "you can extract in one session confessions that would have taken four days of sissified questioning...
...insidiously. As the twilight deepens, the viewer can look at the sun without squinting. Meanwhile, the pupils of his eyes are opening wider -just in time to receive the shattering bombardment of infra-red rays that continue after most of the visible radiation is gone. There is no warning pain as the radiation passes through the viewer's dilated pupil and is focused onto the center of the retina, even when the concentrated rays burn a hole in this sensitive, irreplaceable screen. Slight damage to this part of the retina causes incurable blurring of vision. Damage of medium severity...
...pitiful indeed when the President of the U.S. is delayed in doing "right" by the fearsome "might" of "practical politics" [June 21]. Like the child who knows but won't admit his error, the nation suffers the pain of inexorable guilt. Deep down it knows the Negro has right on his side. But, like the child, it needs help, moral leadership to assuage its pain...
...parasite would seem vulnerable to several forms of attack. But the only known drug treatments for humans are rugged and not particularly reliable once the disease reaches an advanced stage. In many parts of the world, schistosomiasis is so much an accepted plague of life that the abdominal pain it causes, the blood in the urine and feces, often are disregarded until too late. After years of apparent health, a victim's abdomen may swell as he gradually grows weak and dies, his liver, lungs, urinary tract or even his heart damaged beyond hope from the irritation caused...
There would be doubt, hesitation and pain...