Word: paines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disturbing sensation, as if their eyes, in order to focus, were being forced to cross. As the cutter fades one image from the screen and fades another in, the eyes instinctively attempt to focus on the departing and the arriving images, and the strain sometimes approaches the threshold of pain. On the whole, the experience is entertaining, and probably will not hurt anybody who has not had to go through it since 1955. In any case, it is always possible, if the eyes protest too much, to slip off the goggles and see two pictures for the price...
...strike was illegal under New York State's never-used Condon-Wadlin Act, which outlaws strikes by public employees on pain of dismissal. But School Superintendent John J. Theobald did not invoke the law, instead suspended the strikers. Then Mayor Robert F. Wagner called in three top labor leaders, including the Garment Workers' Dave Dubinsky, to "mediate." Said one: "We pledge to the families of New York City that there will be no recurrence...
...rough translation-bawls the ten-year-old heroine of Zazie dans le Métro, a new French film currently packing Paris cinema houses. While her contemporaries practiced the piano, Zazie practiced les belles four-lettres. She learned her French history ("Napoleon! That jerk gives me a pain, with his bowlegs and his corny hat"), dreamed of a career as a schoolmarm ("so I can beat the stuff out of the brats"), until she heard that teachers would soon be replaced by machines, and decided instead to be an astronaut ("so I can beat the stuff out of the Martians...
...spine is straightened, then bound into place with one to three rods, which are fastened to the spine with metal hooks. The rods are readily accepted by the body, says Dr. Harrington, and need never be removed. Affixed to the spine just beneath the back muscles, they cause no pain, do not restrict physical activity. After ten days in the hospital and a six-week convalescent period, says Surgeon Harrington, youngsters equipped with rods can run, swim, play tennis. The only restriction: no contact sports such as football...
...defense, Dr. Harry S. N. Greene, professor of pathology at Yale University's medical school, testified that the case against smoking has not been proved. He said he smokes, even when he has a chest cold, because it brings on a "productive cough" that eases the pain in his chest. Dr. Thomas H. Burford, professor of thoracic surgery at St. Louis' Washington University, said that he smokes about a pack and a half of cigarettes a day, but he has no sympathy for the person who cannot stop smoking. Said he: "I do it every month...