Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kept there, but when they dragged me out I was numb and almost senseless. My skin was frozen and felt like wood. "Let's warm him up," said an Islamic Guard. The two began whipping me with cables. At first I couldn't feel much pain, but then it got sharper and sharper. I was bleeding all over. I passed...
...high cost and high pain of moving has resulted in the growth of a number of specialty companies that buy old homes, help find mortgages and new homes and, sometimes, assist spouses in finding work in their new locations. Says Gaylord Milbrandt, executive vice president of Runzheimer and Co., a Wisconsin-based relocation consultant: "Business has just been phenomenal." With 13 offices nationwide, Merrill Lynch Relocation Management helps transfer some 35,000 families of other companies yearly. It bills employers for brokers' commissions and real estate closing costs, plus its own fee of about $2,000 a sale...
...that seem to protect the driver from any interference. Yet oncoming cars on cross streets are difficult, if not impossible, to see, and the clear track ahead dulls a driver's awareness that a child chasing a ball may dart out at any moment from the barriers of pain ted steel...
...heart François (Philippe Marlaud), the protagonist of Eric Rohmer's intelligently talkative movie, is every bit as bonkers over his lady as William Hurt is over Kathleen Turner in Body Heat. And Anne (Marie Rivière) is very possibly a greater pain to be with. Too self-absorbed even to fake passion, she does not seem to take even mildly sadistic pleasure in making François, among others, dance to her off-key tunes. It may be that she unconsciously seeks revenge because she has been jilted by her married lover, the aviator...
...together, members of the Francoeur family step very gingerly. The phrases "How are you?" and "Are you all right?" become refrains: not just the words people normally say when they have not seen one another for some time, but utterances intended to forestall confessions of private turmoil and pain. Only the parents, in their increasing mental and physical deterioration, are exempt from this iron rule of politeness. During Daniel's first visit, his mother suddenly turns on her husband: "You wouldn't let me have the operation, though the doctor said I should, said...