Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...narrow-mindedness and indifference were even greater enemies, just as Jan Scruggs found they were in Viet Nam. He was 19 when a rocket grenade exploded behind him in a clearing near Xuan Loc on May 28, 1969. His anguish will heal finally, and maybe the nation's pain be eased too, when ground is broken in a few days on the Washington Mall for the Viet Nam Veterans Memorial. Fifty men who fought in the war will each turn a spade of earth on a spot of hallowed ground 75 yards from Constitution Avenue. The site...
...black country-blues singer and guitarist whose funky, improvisational style was a major influence on rock musicians in the 1960s and 1970s; of cancer; in Houston. A contemporary and peer of such blues artists as Muddy Waters and B.B. King, Hopkins' high-pitched voice sang sardonically about pain, suffering and death while his fingers played a hard-driving bass in irregular rhythms. He recorded more than 100 singles and wrote about 600 songs...
Gildea was referred to Dr. Arthur Boland, Harvard's head surgeon for athletics, who reconstructed her knee by inserting a staple to repair torn tissue. Despite intense pain, Gilder worked out three times a week her sophomore year to get back into the water...
Judith McDonalt, the second alleged victim, testified that shortly after midnight on March 26, 1978, she was in great pain from a backache and sciatic nerve injury and Hussain gave her a morplunie injection. After giving her the morpline McDonald said. Hussain placed her in restraints and moved her call bell our of reach. When the nurse who was assisting him left the room, he removed her pants and raped her, she charged. After the rape, she added, Hussain threatened to put her in pain for the rest of her life if she ever told anyone about the attack...
What astonished Sabom was the uniformity of the patients' accounts. All recalled a sense of timelessness, an awareness of their own deaths, and a strong sense of reality. (It was "realer than here," said one man.) Patients remembered an absence of physical pain, a feeling of tranquillity and even delight ("That was the most beautiful instant in the whole world when I came out of that body...