Word: painfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After an hour and a half Flyer Bettis regained consciousness. Shots of pain told him that his left leg was smashed. He tried to lick his lips and another shower of agony told more: both jaws broken. Slowly he freed himself from his safety belt. Twenty-four hours crawled...
...engine trouble. Steering over the marsh toward the village of Hurst, the pilot struggled with his controls. A barn roof loomed underneath. The world tipped crazily, spinning around. Crash! A haystack flew at the shrieking passengers, then another, then the cabin crushed in upon them, everything upside down in pain, screams, a horrifying silence. Some of the passengers regained consciousness before they were dragged out; some awoke in Folkestone and Sandgate hospitals. Robert Blaney, just-graduated-from-Harvard son of Artist Dwight Blaney of Boston never awoke; neither did another passenger, an Italian. The French pilot died next...
...Avenir declared: "Borah hates France with a sort of sadic frenzy." One is a sadist who takes pleasure, ipso facto, in inflicting pain. * Last week John Allen Sickel, Manhattan caviar dealer, bet his wife that he could name all the state capitals in the U. S. He won. Curious newspapermen wondered how many other citizens could duplicate Mr. Sickel's feat. TIME readers desirous this week of making bets similar to Mr. Sickel's may settle their bets by consulting p. 9, where all state capitals are listed...
...collarless, others privately naked. In front of a cell-like apartment house one Garth Anderson, Negro, 23, sat dull-eyed, knowing not, caring less that Miss Josephine Smith, 20, white, likewise exuded many a salty droplet some miles away. Languor fell upon them. They sighed, yawned-screamed with fearful pain until summoned surgeons set their respectively dislocated jaws...
Within his office, Mayor Walker told friends that he had tried for half an hour to rise from his chair, but could not because of a terrific pain in his left knee. He called his brother, Dr. William H. Walker, who ordered an X-ray to be taken...