Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stillness falls on our small town. The dead boy is taken to his home. Slowly and stoically, men, women and children come to pay their respects. In pain and anger the family carry their son to his resting place. The funeral cortege is broken up by soldiers who fire in the air and lob tear-gas canisters into the crowd. On the way home from the funeral, I see an 80-year-old man being dragged by soldiers from his front porch and forced at gunpoint to clear the streets of debris...
...burst of light. The 35,000 baseball fans in Tiger Stadium watching a game gasp in unison at the preternatural dazzle. The people in the stands who face the fireball are blinded by it. An instant later they and the rest of the crowd are on fire. But the pain ends quickly: the explosion's blast wave, like a super-hardened wall of air moving faster than sound, crushes the stands and the spectators into a heap of rubble...
Rising food prices have also been a prime source of inflationary pain and despair over much of the past decade. But food prices last year rose only 4.3%, less than half the 10.1% jump in 1980. Many economists predict that the increase this year will be only slightly larger, perhaps...
...soon as I get the uniform on, I'm happy," Fidrych says. "Getting dirty, you know. Being a kid again. I love it. Oh, I'm still a free spirit. You won't see me lose that." And, at least on this day, he experiences no pain...
...luxuriate in pain...