Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though he had indirectly been installed by student power. Park remained wary of its potential. On two occasions after his coup, Park reimposed martial law to quell demonstrations. Finally, in one of his emergency decrees in 1974, Park outlawed protest under pain of penalties ranging from one year's imprisonment to death. Ultimately, one of the disagreements that was to lead to Park's assassination was how much latitude the government should give to frustrated young dissidents...
Muskie neither threatened nor cajoled, but he stressed in his private sessions with the ministers that the Carter Administration regarded sanctions as "important" because they would inflict hardship and a sense of isolation on the Tehran regime. To reporters, he added that "pain is a highly motivating force" and "sanctions [are] a specific way of communicating to Iran...
...bacteria, has reached epidemic proportions among women, and studies indicate that users of I.U.D.s seem from two to seven times more susceptible to such problems than women who do not employ them. This is a special concern for those who have never been pregnant. The warning signals include abdominal pain, fever, severe menstrual cramps, abnormal bleeding and vaginal discharges. Left unchecked, such infections can scar and block the fallopian tubes, where the union of egg and sperm takes place, and sometimes lead to a hysterectomy. The I.U.D., when it fails, has also been suspected of causing ectopic pregnancies, in which...
...years in hospitals, prisons and other institutions, the illness and waste and frequent despair. But they could see some of its ravages in Pepper's face, which was taut and sallow under his skullcap haircut, almost a death mask. And they could hear some of its pain in the soulful, impassioned solos that Pepper poured out when he picked up his alto...
...last masterpiece of painting to be provoked by political catastrophe. World War II and the Holocaust evoked nothing to match it, and the monuments to the Gulag are books, not paintings. Guernica's power flows from the contrast between its almost marmoreal formal system and the terrible vocabulary of pain that Picasso locked into it. It is shown at MOMA with all its preliminary studies, and to see Picasso developing these hieroglyphs of anguish, the horse, the weeping woman, the screaming head, the fallen soldier, the clenched hand on the sword, is to witness one of the supreme dramas...