Word: paines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...developed a new kind of class division that Karl Marx never conceived of-people with expense accounts v. people without them. And as that Great Leveler, the Internal Revenue Service, is busy blurring this distinction between haves and havenots, predictable cries of pain are being raised throughout the land...
...considering the article for my current events report, except that I don't think it would go over very well with my teacher, and therefore would only add to the pain of my high school martyrdom...
...would believe that pygmies are devoured by cranes. Whether today's lexicographers are wiser is another matter. Johnson may not have known what a masochist was (the eponymous Herr von Masoch had not yet been born to give his name to those who find pleasure in their own pain), but Lexicographer Johnson had a word for the type of man: he was a "seeksorrow...
While this pitching talent is encouraging, Shepard is a bit worried about who will catch the masterful deliveries. Dick Diehl, who caught last year, wrenched his knee and ankle in a skiing accident in January. He is just beginning to walk without pain; squatting behind the plate for nine innings is considerably more difficult and he may not be up to it for some time...
...judgment had been pronounced. Mme. Calas was released, her other son was banished from France. But Father Calas was executed upon the wheel; the judges' sentence stipulated that his arms, legs, loins and thighs were to be broken and "his face turned to the sky, to live in pain and repentance . . . as long as it pleases God to give him life...