Word: paines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...border. The train pulled in, and the two rushed up to the platform, got an empty compartment. Bernd opened the suitcase; Maria assumed the prenatal position-head on chest. He carefully forced back her shoulder, got the lid closed by pressing it down with his knee. She gasped with pain as he belted the two straps. Then he moved the suitcase-which had been punctured in several places to give Maria air-into the corridor and returned to his compartment. Police and border guards, working methodically through the car, looked at Bernd's papers; one guard asked where...
...nationality has veered from affection through suspicion and hostility to hatred. Rare is the man on the Algiers beat who has not been threatened by the S.A.O. Recently, two LIFE men were forced to surrender their film at gunpoint. ABC Correspondent John Casserly was told to leave town on pain of death; he now covers Algeria from Tunis. "We have no time for sentiment," an S.A.O. gunman told the New York Herald Tribune's Tom Lambert, after Lambert's arrival in Algiers in late January. "If we have to, we will not hesitate to kill...
...hospital nurse worth her starch takes high pride in beds made with cotton sheets stretched tightly over a rubberized or plastic mattress cover, which is a tidy and sanitary practice-and one that can cause agonizing pain or even death from bedsores. Patients confined to bed in one position for long periods are almost certain to get blisters over the lower spine. Patients who develop ulcers, as sometimes happens among aged victims of broken hips...
...strangely unmoving and dramatically slack, partly because the audience knows in advance that the hero will die, partly because it never gets to know and care about the man himself, and partly because he opts for suicide as a way out before he even struggles with the un bearable pain that might have purged and shaken the playgoer with pity and terror...
...sentences-round and ripe though they be-lack the sonorous roll of Quiller-Couch's originals. Who but an authentic Victorian master could recreate such Quiller-Couch lines as "This most ancient cirque of Castle Dor, deserted, bramble-grown, was the very nipple of a huge breast in pain, aching for discharge...