Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coffin, his wife bent to kiss his pale forehead. She tenderly caressed his sparse hair and then kissed him again. She had behaved at that moment of grief as any Russian woman would. For many Soviets witnessing the scene on their television screens, that moving glimpse of private pain seemed to cut through the hundreds of thousands of words that spewed forth in official obituaries and were scarcely different from those that had marked Brezhnev's passing...
...pain in the neck to wait around for computer time," says one CS 11 student but he adds he is "still very satisfied" with the computer facilities provided for the course...
...parlous state of Brazil's economy. With the largest foreign debt in the Third World (estimated at $93 billion), inflation galloping at an estimated annual rate of 215%, and a third consecutive year of negative economic growth in 1983, Brazil (pop. about 131 million) is in acute social pain. Foreign bankers granted the country a brief breathing space two weeks ago with a $6.5 billion "jumbo" loan. But the U.S. Commerce Department had earlier added to Brazil's burden by ruling that steel exports to the U.S., which totaled $1.3 billion last year, were unfairly subsidized and thus...
While Elizabeth Bouvia does not have a terminal illness, she is a quadriplegic and as such has decided that the no longer deems her life worth the pain and effort. Despite the criticism her stance has received from handicapped groups who deride her for implying "that the disabled nothing to live for," her decision remains a personal...
This hall-of-mirrors badinage, coupled with gossip-column accounts of their hyperthyroid social lives and incessant travels, served to camouflage years of almost unbearable pain. Porter was the victim of a riding accident in 1937, when a horse fell on him and crushed both legs...