Word: painful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a smile on her lips and a severe pain in her stomach. Amy ("Call-me-Johnnie") Johnson, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, first woman to make a solo flight from London to Australia (TIME, June 2), landed last week from an Imperial Airways liner at Croydon. A "Johnsonian crew'' of more than 50,000 exuberant Britons splashed through mudpuddles to welcome her home...
...personal stories for the Examiner. After the first story appeared, Lavine was arrested outside the office of Charles Crawford, Los Angeles political boss, with $75,000 in marked bills. He and Miss Johnson planned, the prosecutors said, to squeeze $300,000 from a half-dozen prominent citizens, upon pain of using their names in unfavorable connections in the new revelations...
Biological research on starvation indicates that the stomach contractions continue throughout. In extreme starvation they may become prolonged and tetanic (griping) in character. Cessation of the actual sensation of pain probably is attributable to cerebral depression and asthenia of the stomach...
...second stroke fell. How damnably timed they were! The time taken in handing the cane over to the next monitor and his run across the library was just enough for Colin to realize the sickness of the pain of the first blow without any of its sting wearing off. . . . Two more! How they could lay in! And only half. He began to feel sick...
They wrote and Mr. Milestone photographed the story of German schoolboys who went to war. There they met Hunger. They met and grew to worship a guttural, tough comrade called Kat. They met nerve-tearing bombardment, lice, pain. They met three French girls by swimming a river after nightfall. One by one they met Death...