Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ulysses Grant sat on the porch and marched armies across his memory. He called them up through cocaine and morphine, through the pain in his throat, and into a perfect clarity of prose. He fought the war minutely all over again: Shiloh and Vicksburg, the slaughters of the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, where men were so sure of death that they pinned their names and addresses on their jackets for easy identification when they fell. And at last, the mythy set piece of Appomattox, where Lee came as the elegant last cavalier, and Grant, a shabby cigar stub...
Rooting for the Sox is a state of mind, a masochistic commitment to late-summer agony. Even so, John Cheever once surmised that all literate people are Red Sox fans. If you're not big on pain, you can still enjoy the sport for its own particular beauty, and catch one of the best hitters of our time--Wade Boggs, owner of a .346 lifetime average--in his prime...
...material is applied in the desired shape, then the coatings are hardened with either chemicals or a beam of ultraviolet light and polished. Bonding costs anywhere from $150 to $500 a tooth, one-third to one-half the price of crowns or caps, and can usually be performed without pain or the need to file down teeth. While bonding now lasts only five to seven years before it needs to be redone, the resins are continually being improved. Some are already so durable that dentists use them instead of silver amalgam for fillings in the front teeth...
Just as A.H. Robins was filing for bankruptcy last week because of a product- liability case, another leading drug company, Eli Lilly, was having its own legal problems. Lilly, a maker of drugs (Darvon, a pain killer) and fragrances (Chloe), faced charges concerning Oraflex, a medicine for arthritis...
...manager of Au Bon Pain, Douglas Parker, has the right, along with Harvard, to cancel or deny a permit. Citing local gadfly Logan Evans and his trivia game exploits as something he would object to, Parker says simply, "He annoys people...