Word: painful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After lunch they looked at Albuquerque's buildings, rode on Albuquerque policemen's motorcycles, squealed as they rode up the elevator to the top of Albuquerque's eight-story First National Bank Building. Although their hosts had not planned it, they were educated in pain as well as pleasure: as they watched Albuquerque's firemen climb a building, a rope broke. Firemen Frank Parenti and George Tafoya fell 40 feet, were seriously injured. The children agreed to spend part of the money they had been saving for playground equipment to send flowers to the firemen...
...reported that he had treated dozens of diseases with spinal B, injections, including duodenal ulcers, tuberculosis, inoperable cancer, cardiac decompensation, uremia, anuria, tabes dorsales, multiple sclerosis. These were not all cured by any means, especially in the cancer cases, but in all cases there was a diminution of pain, the patients looked and felt better, and in some instances there was a rejuvenating effect which Dr. Stern attributed to the vitamin. His most touching case was an elderly woman who was almost pathologically addicted to sweets and had von Recklinghausen's disease (ugly nodules all over the body...
...intoxications of Jim Malloy and Peggy Henderson, but not so much about their hangovers; a good deal about their transports but not so much about their quarrels. And the wisecracks that seemed in O'Hara's earlier books to be wrenched from the speakers like snarls of pain seem in Hope of Heaven pat and smug, more pretentious than pathic...
...fence whitewashed is still a U. S. classic of super-salesmanship. His mind is still happily mercurial, weighted one minute with the agonizing secret that Injun oe, and not good old Muff Potter, killed young Doc Robinson in the graveyard; exalted the next by the unholy delight of feeding Pain-killer to Peter, the cat. The painful croppers of his acrobatic courtship of Becky Thatcher, the sharp thimble thumps of exasperated Aunt Polly, the ecstasy and heartache of runaway buccaneering and the bursting satisfaction of eavesdropping on his own funeral, the adventure of being lost in the great cave with...
...directory the editor's helper found the name of Sir George Robertson Turner. Thereupon Cavalcade printed and credited Sir George with a letter he had not written. In court, Sir George, an 82-year-old, devout Church of Englander, said Cavalcade's botchery had caused him great pain, for his friends began suspecting that, at his great age, he had lost his mind...