Word: painfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nines, eating delicately prepared viands and enjoying life in either a Manhattan penthouse, where one prays the swimming pool does not spring a leak and ruin the library's first editions, or a riverside mansion, where the helicopter pad blends nicely into the landscape. There is no rage, pain or panic in any of these venues, and no wild laughter either. There are only the muttered discontents of the well favored...
...promise, and a warning. Both men believed in the politics of punishment, and by the time their paths crossed in that twilight at the White House, each had shown his capacity for pain. Gingrich's 16 years on the back benches as the most hated member of Congress did not break his heart or his will: when he became Speaker, he promised he would remake the world in the first 100 days. The first thing most voters learned about Clinton was how hard it was to kill him, as he slogged through New Hampshire in 1992, no voice, no sleep...
...KNIEVEL once fractured his skull and pelvis jumping over fountains at Caesar's Palace. Last week his leg was injured when his parked motorcycle fell over and pinned him to the ground. Knievel, 60, was rescued by neighbors who heard his pleas for help. Though he complained of leg pain and a scraped elbow, Knievel refused to be taken to a hospital. Even a glutton for pain is not impervious to a bruised...
...athletes returning from the injured list, the challenges of recurring pain can be two-fold. In addition to braving the agony of rehabilitation, sidelined players must endure practices and competitions from the bench, sometimes equally as excruciating for those who once dreamt of success...
...many injured athletes, initial pain anddisappointment usually gives way to optimism andresolve. The road to recovery for Milbert will belong and strenuous, but its bumps are at leastfamiliar. She is already anticipating long hoursin the training room, but at the end of it allpictures herself lacing up her skates sometimeearly next year...