Word: painfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with almost unbearable pain that we have witnessed the end of the chase, a lion brought down by a yelping mongrel pack...
Mark swims for three hours every day, will increase that to four hours a day when school lets out this summer. "I have," he says, "a high definition of hurt"-meaning threshold of pain-and his philosophy in practice is "Always go farther than you think you can." Spitz's dedication to swimming does not keep him from being a serious student: he gets Bs, has applied for entrance to Stanford, plans to study dentistry. "I wonder," he says, "how it will be when I'm Mark Spitz, just one of a million dentists, after all the travel...
...party in Manhattan last New Year's Eve, his hostess did a double take at his bushy new mustache, then decided on drastic measures. Recalls Hotchner with a wince: "She ripped it off the moment I walked in. " That could have been a moment of pain for "Hotch,"except that the mustache was a phony, held in place by a coating of spirit gum. Undaunted, he has sported his brush on several occasions since. "It's a great comfort when you're feeling low," he says. "It's as restorative as a Bloody Mary when...
What eludes U.S. penology (from the Latin poena, meaning pain) is the basic recipe of effective punishment: speedy, inescapable prosecution, a fair chance for a fresh start, and state-upheld values that offenders can reasonably acknowledge as superior to their own. For one thing, 77% of reported U.S. crimes are never solved; many are never even reported. Thus, most caught criminals see their problem as bad luck rather than bad character. Indeed, such are the human mind's defenses that the guilty often feel in nocent. Dostoevsky astutely depicts a would-be murderer viewing...
...most dominant emotion in Negro life." A few minutes later, a waiter set a tray of dirty dishes on their table. Carter sent them crashing to the floor. "Tell me what you felt," Wright demanded quickly. "Just hate before I pushed them," replied Carter. "And after?" asked Wright. "Pain in my legs, nausea, fear, tension...