Word: paines
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...grim decision to put an individual to death, when it terminates its end of the social contract with a human being who has broken his side of the deal, society must proceed as deliberately and as scrupulously as possible. The value of capital punishment lies not in easing the pain of the victims' loved ones but in providing society with a tool that it can use, in exceptional situations, to destroy the absolutely irredeemable...
...wasn't until his sophomore year when a full season became a reality, but even then the constant sharp pain in his knee would not allow him to forget his first season...
...remember at Holy Cross when he broke his foot," Smith said. "He was obviously in a lot of pain and suffering, but he still came over and encouraged us and rooted us on. That just epitomizes his exceptional leadership...
Ambrose's macro war is suitably conventional. Allied Commander Eisenhower was the right man in the right job; British Field Marshal Montgomery was an obstructionist and all-round pain in the keister; Patton was the best field general of the war, despite eugenic notions that were strictly Third Reich--he pulled the bravest men off of the front to preserve their bloodlines...
...jolted by your article on being awake during surgery [MEDICINE, Nov. 3]. Some years ago, my grandmother survived hip-replacement surgery despite her claim that she had not been anesthetized. She spoke of her excruciating pain and fear to the two doctors the day following surgery. When we decided to file suit to protect other patients, there were attempts to make her seem incompetent and thus invalidate her claims. No matter. Her attorney had her IQ tested to prove competency (145 IQ at age 78). I certainly knew that she wasn't nuts and that she would not accuse someone...