Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drought there is thought to be the worst in 30 years. In downstate Bond County, where some 80% of the corn crop has been destroyed, Block's National Guard helicopter swooped down onto a field of sorry, 6-in.-high cornstalk stumps. "I can personally feel the pain," he said as he looked out over Farmer Richard Weiss's acreage, "because I have looked at my own fields. They're not this bad, but they're bad." Block owns a 3,000-acre corn and soybean farm near the Mississippi River...
...that keeps them in the home long after the beatings have begun. But Michigan Psychologist Camella Serum dismisses such assumptions as folklore. "Masochism has no relevance in this situation. It is just another way to blame the victim. The reason she stays has nothing to do with loving the pain or seeking the violence...
...last time William saw his wife he beat her until he tired. "When it was over," he says, "I picked her up off the floor and kissed her and told her I was sorry. I wanted to feel the pain that she felt. So I kissed her. Her nose was running and she was crying, and I loved her very much...
Young did not resist. Through a blur of pain and fear, feeling the blade of his knife scraping up and down her back, she tried to keep a conversation going. "I quickly decided that if I lived through this, I was going to know as much about him as possible," recalls Young, 36, an emergency-room nurse who had often treated victims of rape but never imagined it could happen to her. "I kept putting my hands all over him, trying to feel for moles or scars or some identifying mark...
...compared with $1,700 charged at nearby Methodist Hospital of Southern California. Instead of paying $100 to $400 for a night in the hospital, patients at the new clinics are sent home with instructions on how to care for themselves. "They know what to anticipate in the way of pain, swelling and the course of their recovery," says Orthopedic Surgeon Lyn Thompson of Salt Lake Surgical Center, a Utah facility that performs nearly 8,000 operations a year...