Word: painful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pain when you got hit," Murphy says. "Hold still--still. There. Even if it is broken, the pain won't be bad." As the injured man will tell you later, the pain usually...
...their studies of accident victims and war wounded, doctors still cannot explain much about individual differences in reaction to shock. One thing that has a lot to do with the effects of shock, many doctors believe, is fear. Not only will fear of pain make pain feel worse, but fear itself seems to contribute directly to the shock reaction, so that one man may die helplessly where another may save himself. Last week, to support this view, came the story of a man who had little fear...
...Mission completed, thus far, without any pain or fear or anticipation for wife or baby. Now for me. Please do what you can to minimize complications resulting from my actions...
What he makes of it in the 90 poems of Collected Poems could pretty much pass for the common round of human experience. His themes are birth and death, the pain and joy of living and loving, animal vitality balanced against spiritual inner lights. At his weakest, he can and does riffle his images and similes like a cardsharp. At his strongest and best, he makes his poetry toe the line of his creed: "Man be my metaphor." In the 22 years since his first poem was published, Dylan Thomas has added mystic affirmation to his lyric rage. Almost...
...Raoul Dufy, 75, one of the grand old men of modern school-of-Paris art, generally ranked among the top half-dozen contemporary French painters; of a heart attack; in the Provençal village of Forcalquier. Partially crippled by arthritis for the past 15 years, Dufy never let pain or gloom color his work. He was famed chiefly for lighthearted, bright-hued racing and yachting scenes...