Word: paines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rest of the way in LSTs and LSMs. Overhead, Chinese Nationalist ace pilots, in U.S.-built planes, bloodied the Communist MIGs. Little by little, Quemoy was provisioned and armed to the beaches with 155-mm. howitzers, mortars and tanks. From Moscow, Khrushchev demanded the fleet's withdrawal on pain of an all-out war. But the U.S. naval escort, keeping carefully outside the international three-mile limit, maintained the needed umbrella for the Chinese Nationalists -and Khrushchev did nothing...
...Christian death on non-Christian life . . . But why must such a death be turned into needless defeat in the case of the faithful? When a devout man demands to know the truth s othat he can face death victoriously, must we join his family in pretending this burning pain in his abdomen will disappear?For one thing, such a sufferer may feel cut off from his family, unable to admit or what he suspects. "He can't turn to them, or lean on them; he can't ask their forgiveness; he can't set his affairs...
Almost every student comes to the College a particular personal utopia, challenge, opportunity, and almost none finds what he expects. Many are fortunate and never realize badly they guessed; others are blessed with accurate enough to be changed without pain; some are so little committed that they can change their ideas easily. But for the majority, the discovery that Harvard is not what they anticipated is critical in forming their attitudes toward the College and toward higher education...
Sometimes a reported improvement is what the doctors call "subjective," meaning that the patient feels better, says he has less pain, eats better and often resumes normal activities after having been bedridden. Cancer scientists dismiss all such effects as resulting from the power of suggestion...
...Barr tried to explain that his "rather garbled remark" had been "eagerly misinterpreted as an obituary. It was not. American abstract expressionism, in its robust middle age, is going strong"-despite "the hostile attitude of the head critics of the leading New York newspapers." But what caused Barr real pain was his unwanted reputation as the most powerful taste-maker in America. "I am more than embarrassed," he wrote, "I am dismayed. Any influence I may have is largely dependent upon the institution where I work. Now it is true that the Museum of Modern Art has a few times...