Word: painful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Lincoln died because the abnormal mind of J. Wilkes Booth was persuaded he was a tyrant. McKinley was stretched on his bier because Czolgosz believed what yellow journalists told him. Clemenceau is on a bed of pain because a man was stimulated into action by poison distilled from the false charge that the great peacemaker was an imperialistic friend...
...Most of them sleep steadily from the moment they are brought in on stretchers out of the ambulance to the time they are put on the operating table. In fact, we operate upon them without taking the stretchers out from under them, so as to spare them the pain of being moved. They have all had morphine so that they are usually comfortable. It is a wonderful blessing. Each one has a cross marked with iodine on his forehead, showing that he has received his injection of serum to prevent lockjaw...
Then came this present conflict, and with it casualty lists containing names with less historical interest for us. Our friends and our kin have spilled their blood in France. Our pain and anguish is now personal; it is our very own. The lists have been growing and growing until the number of Harvard men who have given their lives has swelled to eighty. And thus we find that Memorial Day has a meaning for us after all, that its purpose is a splendid one, that we welcome this occasion to hold corporate honor for all our brave defenders, but especially...
...neither for war nor for peace. It is merely a method, embodying far-reaching principles,--a method that is applicable equally to good or to evil. Thus we find science today contributing impartially to the means of destroying life and of preserving it, and to the modes of inflicting pain and of relieving human misery...
...wants to do something to prepare himelf for future service. Yet yesterday and the day before showed that to drill without over-coats when the thermometer refuses to register is not too instructive and extremely uncomfortable. It is difficult to drill when all feelings except those of distinct pain have left the fingers...