Word: paines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guard to a prisoner in solitary on bread and water: "White or rye?" Says an inmate to a guard: "Let's get one thing straight, McPherson: I live here, you just work here." Occasionally Reese slips into macabre, sick-style prison humor: "Ain't I a pain in the neck?" says the hangman to the condemned. But some of his cartoons rise to a choking pitch of bitterness, a stifled scream: "You with the dignity," a guard shouts at a curiously proud marcher in a gang of grey. "Get back in line...
After a month of dispensing gloom, the stock market finally gave Wall Streeters something to smile about last week-the kind of smile that comes only because the pain is a little less painful than before. On Thursday, June 28, stock prices staged their biggest rally since the brief rebound right after May 28's Blue Monday. In the third largest one-day jump on record, the Dow-Jones industrial average zoomed 20.37 points to 557-35. Next day it rose again modestly to close the week...
...soon as exposed to air." Second Deadly Silas. Howells' novels were written in a prose that both friends such as Twain and detractors such as H. L. Mencken admitted to be superb; and they were written about subjects that mattered-the hardening caste strata in U.S. society, the pain of divorce, the wrongs of a laissez-faire economy. Yet before his death in 1920, with the realism he had preached unshakably in vogue, he wrote to his friend Henry James, "I am comparatively a dead cult with my statues cut down and the grass growing over them...
Betty S., daughter of a Manhattan TV writer, was stricken before her fourth birthday. What began as a sore throat and pain in the ankles soon developed into a full-blown case of Still's disease-he name given to rheumatoid arthritis when it attacks children. Betty was sent to a hospital for intensive care of her swollen joints. Main item in her treatment was heavy dosage with hormones of the cortisone family, which relieved her pain and kept her joints reasonably flexible. But Still's disease weakens a child's bones and hampers growth; ironically, cortisone...
McBride concluded that pigs have a vocabulary of at least ten easily distinguishable squeals and grunts, most of which express mood or emotion. A high-pitched squeal means distress or pain. A lower-pitched squeal, very common with pigs, says "I'm hungry." A short squeal like a dog's yelp means "I give up." Grunts are more subtle, says McBride...