Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quotes Twain: "Of all the creatures that were made, man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one, the solitary one, that possesses malice. That is the basest of all instincts, passions, vices--the most hateful. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. Also in all the list, he is the only creature that has a nasty mind...
Prashker is there when I need her, not there when I don't. She perceives the indescribable pain of researching and writing books, and, in my case, has been of immeasurable help in producing two Bestsellers. I need her and love...
...accelerating quite so alarmingly as the creation of chemical compounds. Through their genius, modern alchemists brew as many as 1,000 new concoctions each year in the U.S. alone. At last count, nearly 50,000 chemicals were on the market. Many have been an undeniable boon to mankind, mitigating pain and disease, prolonging life for millions and expanding the economy in myriad ways by stimulating the creation of new products. There is, however, a price to pay for an industrial society that has come to rely so heavily on chemicals: almost 35,000 of those used...
Senior Ryan Lamppa, another refugee from the half-mile, is looking very good, and if he can learn to live with pain for six miles, could boost the Harriers...
INTUITION and instinot seem to have little place in McPhee's writing; McPhee is the ultimate McPhee hero, the quintessential craftsman, who uses his tools so well that he leaves almost no mark on the surfaces he touches. His work is not blemished with the bubbly acne of pain or turmoil; he knows that to address anything too close to the core will mean unsightly mess. He is too polite, too squeamish, or maybe too lazy to examine the innards, to ask his subjects to puke their guts out so he can poke around in them a little. Studs Terkel...