Word: painful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...triple jump, where Pardee and Njoku are expected to help out later, Olufemi Olunloyo's 43 ft., 10 in. leap scored a second place. Femi's legs were strapped up like mummies to ease the pain of shin splints...
...Commissioners must prostrate themselves before the House District Committee and beg for minimum amounts of money for schools, hospitals, welfare, etc. They must submit to blackmail by the Committee, such as when, a couple of years ago, the Commissioners were warned not to issue a fair housing ordinance upon pain of not receiving an appropriation for schools and hospitals; or when last year the District Committee insisted on retaining the privilege of sifting through the traffic tickets and taking out those of people who are exempt by reason of being relatives, friends, staff members, or constituents of members...
...parked outside the police station in Bethesda, Md., a Washington suburb. Miss Butts was crumpled over the wheel, dead of a bullet through her head. Beside her body was a note: "Today I killed my best friend, Mary Happer. I had to let her find relief from the cancer pain that was killing her so cruelly...
Baro Finkelstone, the hero of Leslie Fiedler's latest novel, is a travesty of all the middle-aged Jewish liberals who ever lived in fiction. Pain is his pleasure. Having flagellated himself for Hiroshima, the plight of the Negro and the predicament of the American, he innocently demands: "Just tell me one thing I've done wrong." But in order to know that he is innocent, Finkelstone must suffer as though he were guilty, and Author Fiedler, who as a critic is the U.S.'s leading Freudian, cunningly assists his hero to find familiar occasions of guilt...
...essay is like sitting down with an interesting fellow in the dining hall; the talk's not too precise, the reforms not necessarily related to the evil attacked, but the spirit of engagement, the sense of concern is there. Indeed the dining table is the symbol of Gordon's pain-killer for the migraine of specialization; beef up the community because students will be most liberally educated by their friends. The houses not the curriculum must be the bastions of liberal undergraduate education...