Word: paines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, at any time," declared Massachusetts' Governor Calvin Coolidge when he broke the Boston police strike in 1919. "A strike of public employees is unthinkable and intolerable," added President Roosevelt in 1937. On pain of one year's imprisonment, federal employees are forbidden even to belong to a union that advocates strikes; other bans against public-employee strikes are on the books in eleven states, ranging from New York to Hawaii. And even without specific laws, the country's courts have almost universally upheld Government...
...through the long plane trip home from Viet Nam last September, Columnist Marguerite Higgins was violently ill. Her body ached; her fever flared as high as 105 degrees. At home, intermittent bouts of pain and fever drained her strength, but she continued to write three columns a week. In early November she had to be hospitalized at Walter Reed. Doctors at first thought that she had picked up the drug-resistant malaria that has reached almost epidemic proportions in Viet Nam. Later, they suspected she might have cancer. But an exploratory operation uncovered nothing, and meanwhile her condition continued...
...educators faces tougher problems than the neglected superintendents and teachers who fight to put the "reform" into what were once called reform schools, the "training" into what are now called boys training schools. Practical pessimists who yet remain stubbornly hopeful, they take youthful lawbreakers to whom school means only pain and failure-and in less than a year they are expected to replace the pain with pleasure, provide promise for the future...
...compulsively fascinating dramatic typhoon in which John Osborne's voice-splenetic, grieving, raging-is heard with more furious personal intensity than at any time since Look Back in Anger. As a defeated solicitor for whom life in the modern world has be come a playing field of pain, Nicol Williamson, 28, gives a bravura perform ance of epic dimensions and phenomenal resourcefulness...
...acclaim. But that was not to be. And the time came when the last fairy story had been written. "How beautiful life is," said Andersen, dying at 70, his mind still dreaming. "It is as if I were sailing to a land far, far away, where there is no pain, no sorrow...