Word: painful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keeps a quarter of a mile distant from him whenever they walk the road to town. One day he catches up with his brother-a bull is kneeling on his crushed chest. The shock of Peter's death awakens the ulcer in Fergus' stomach, its starfish of pain begins to spread. He takes some drink to ease it, dies dreaming of dead friends and the sea. The Author. Englishman Leonard Alfred George Strong's first literary effort was a Chaucerian ballad about a sow named, after his grandmother, Amelia. This attracted his family's attention...
Excerpt from Don Alfonso's manifesto, declared authentic by Count de Romanones, "Spaniards: For nearly a year I have suffered in silence as much as humanly possible and God alone knows that only a man born a Christian King and gentleman could know how to suffer such pain. . . . In raising my banner my intentions are not to divide but to unite all groups of Spaniards and I say to them: My flag is the same as always, red and yellow, and holy and blessed to which I pledged my life as did millions of Spaniards-a flag that goes...
Medicine's best use for hypnotism as a therapeutic agent has been to untangle mental kinks. In peculiarly sensitive people it may ease pain and insomnia better than anything else. Some doctors have found it useful to cure stammering and seasickness. In France Dr. B. de Rachewsky treats hayfever by hypnotizing patients into a belief that pollen is no more contagious than warts...
...work; the Alphas had all the fun. They travelled in helicopters, went to the "feelies," danced to the music of sexophones. In the Year of Our Ford 632 every woman wore a Malthusian belt, blushed with joy if a young man told her she was pneumatic. There was no pain, no disease, no old age, little thought. The words, "mother," "baby," "home," were gross obscenities, made so by Our Ford (who sometimes called himself Our Freud). Motto of the World State was Community, Identity, Stability; the Golden Rule was: "Everyone Belongs to Everyone Else." Wisdom came straight from the horse...
...more of a traveler than an author. His first popular work was an anti-War play, Jeremiah, produced in Switzerland to avoid German and Austrian censorship. He now writes to carry out a conscious literary program. Other translated works: Paul Verlaine, Emile Verhaeren, Romain Rolland, Passion and Pain, Invisible Collection, Conflicts, Adepts in Self-Portraiture, Joseph Fouché, Amok...