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Word: paines (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NOTEBOOK Romero went the distance, winning her third game despite constant pain from stretched ligaments in her knee Curry's shoddy playing field only aggravated her condition. "There wasn't a pitching mound--just a piece of rubber on some dirt," she said. Harvard lifted its record to 8-6 and will probably improve that against Massasoit today....Horne led the batswomen with a three hit outing, including a two-run triple during the Crimson's seventh inning rally...

Author: By Neal Shultz, | Title: Batswomen Cream Curry College, 13-5 | 5/1/1982 | See Source »

Fitzpatrick returns to the family ranch after a stint as a NATO tank captain patroling the Berlin Wall. Borders are just as tense back home. His cantankerous grandfather goes on living and seething beyond his time; a sister with "insufficient resistance to pain of every kind" opts for the lesser agony of suicide. The lonesome cowboy finds purpose only in pursuing Claire, the icy wife of a "vivid . . . piercey-bright, oilman feisty" pseudo-patrón named Tio. The result is McGuane's standard mano á mano struggle in which the prize is less significant than the battle itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hurtin' Cowboy | 4/26/1982 | See Source »

...point towards the end of the play, when More is in jail condemned to death, the wife and daughter come to say their last farewell. In their final moments together, the three embrace. They almost freeze, creating a virtual tableau. We feel the women's sorrow and pain at their distance from More yet we don't feel he is all there...

Author: By Rebeera J. Joseph, | Title: More Is Less | 4/22/1982 | See Source »

...stages. "First you get out there, then out you wait 50 minutes in line at the toilets so that you arrive at the starting line at two before 12, and then--when you cross the finish line and think it's all over--you have to walk around in pain looking for people...

Author: By Caroline R. Adams, | Title: Let the Good Times Roll | 4/20/1982 | See Source »

Frank Mungean '83 expressed more jubilation than most, saying "Right after the race, the first thing that I said was that I wanted to run again next year." As he gorged on post-race bowls of chocolate chip ice cream. Mungean concluded that the race had been sweet pain--but it was a hell of a long way to run for a sunburn...

Author: By Caroline R. Adams, | Title: Let the Good Times Roll | 4/20/1982 | See Source »

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