Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then Howard grabs Casey by the head, holds him down and strikes him again and again above the eyes. The action looks faked, but no one seems to mind. Casey is down, in seeming agony, twisting his body like an animal buckling in a slaughterhouse pen. As his pain subsides, Casey gets up, his face filled with righteous anger. The crowd calls for retribution, for redress of grievances and victory for Casey. Suddenly Casey pins Howard. "Casey nailed that cheating bastard," avers a man in the front row. Justice is done...
Rowing against Princeton in the second-to-last regular-season race of last year, Hale tore a muscle. Despite the pain, she rowed in the Eastern Sprints and the Nationals...
...just like that, the one-goal shocker seemed to erase the pain of the last month's six straight shutout losses and propel the squad into the finest of moods at the most opportune of times...
...hour act of flagellation in which Arthur Miller's whips sear his own flesh and that of anyone he touched or who touched him. Two decades later, in John Tillinger's streamlined, harrowing off-Broadway revival, the scars of passion and pain still show. The wounds this play opened will not heal...
...think that the use of fear to inspire what is thought to be moral conduct can only have the effect of producing the grossest deformities of character associated with fear: servility, and the tendency to pass on the pain suffered oneself to those beneath one who look weaker. There is no insurance system for moral conduct. But there are things known to fail...