Word: paines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alarming thought. The Viet Cong has pledged "to smash the election farce of the U.S. aggressors and their henchmen in Saigon," and ordered all the 541 candidates running for 108 places in the assembly-to be elected Sept. 1 1-to "withdraw their names immediately" on pain of death. So far the V.C. have talked tougher than they have acted: no candidates have yet been assassinated. But Communist cadres have been infiltrating hamlets and villages at night to conduct anti-election seminars, and have begun stealing identification cards and voter registration slips from peasants. The Viet Cong are also reportedly...
...memory is of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, six Dorsetshire farm laborers who in 1834 were transported to the penal colony at Australia's Botany Bay for attempting to form a trade union. The memory includes the General Strike of 1926, the massive unemployment of the Great Depression, the perennial pain of class distinctions, the furious battles to gain labor's rights. It has left British labor with what Labor Journalist John Cole calls a "Maginot outlook," in which strikes are called not so much for higher wages as for preserving some time-honored way of doing...
Written, directed and performed with taste, La Visita has something deep to say about the walls people build around themselves and the pain that lives inside. In the simple story of Pina and Adolfo can be traced the complex process that transforms the tie that binds into the bind that ties and causes all the other-hood...
...eighty of the drugs tested by Cass have been under re-examination by the FDA, since they accused the private drug-testing firm this spring of "untrue statements of material fact" in 1963 tests of Norgesic, another pain-killer. The FDA charged that among those tested were a number of people who were dead at the time they were supposed to have taken Norgesic...
Although Dr. Robert F. McCleery, director of FDA's Medical Advertising division, recommended that all claims based on Cass research be removed from labels--including the drug's chief selling point: "eight-hour pain relief"--this was not done, according to Fountain. Instead, the company was told to simply delete Cass's name from its claims. As a result, Fountain said, "promotional labeling and advertising continued to contain claims based on Cass work...