Word: painful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...human suffering in the present in hopes of future spiritual salvation. He predicted that the forces of economic history would grind religion into oblivion. Then, somewhat perversely, his own theory became a secular faith. Before long it was actively contributing to human suffering, while encouraging men to endure the pain of the world against a future time when the state would wither away...
Allison says he blames himself for the intensity of the controversy, and the consequent pain suffered by the Engelhard family. "I suspect that if the resolution that emerged had been the proposition at the outset that the controversy would not have emerged," But such a compromise would probably not have been possible last fall, when both the ad- ministrators and the students appeared adamant and the controversy looked as if it might blow over...
...stepped out of the bathtub and smithereened a plastic cup lying on the linoleum where, limp-armed, he had dropped it. He hopped on one leg to hold the twinge of pain, new pain he couldn't numb because that cup had served him the last of the gin bright September day: he just back from the war, starched Air Force uniform, two rows of colored ribbons on his chest, bound for glory; she just back from her high-class wartime job in Washington, home to marry the hero. But after the fourth mewling baby, she went to work...
...stepped out of the bathtub and smithereened a plastic cup lying on the linoleum where, limparmed, he had dropped it. He hopped on one leg to hold the twinge of pain, new pain he couldn't numb because that cup had served him the last of the gin the night before. He careened against the wall and his shoulder erupted again in fire. It seared, like it had last night when the lizard-skin boots kept swinging into him, fireballs exploding when they landed. He had already made himself forget whoever it was attached to the boots...
Mary has never quite recovered from the pain and confusion of childbirth, Joseph kvetches about cuckoldry, and Jesus sometimes feels like a designated hitter...