Word: painfulness
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...satellite to the 14,000 conference-goers back in Long Beach. "The most important thing is you jump into action as quickly as possible," he said. The public needs to see "that you are a hands-on Governor," that you "take care of the firefighters" and feel the pain of people who have lost their homes...
...policeman will attest that a typical career thief prefers to minimize violence, which raises pressure on the police to catch him and increases severity of the punishment if he is convicted. But young South African muggers and burglars don't just rob for the money. Many want to inflict pain on their victims, beating, raping or killing them. Of the 200,000 robberies every year, more than half are classed as "aggravated," meaning the victim was also assaulted. A friend warned me before I arrived in South Africa nine months ago, "This is political crime," meaning the violence...
...water,” Kitovitz adds. “You have to trust them. You have to believe in them. If you stop trusting and listening to the coxswain, you’re screwed.”The coxswain remains exempt from the physical pain of a 2,000-meter race done at full throttle. But the enormous responsibility of steering, coaching, and gauging at which points to call for a strong push from the crew is burdensome enough. Coxswains can’t call timeouts and regroup their crews—a luxury afforded to athletes in most other...
...more than 12 years, lifting weights, running on a treadmill and doing aerobics. I was always getting injured. Now that I do yoga, my pain has subsided, and I don't need a chiropractor. Kiana Martinez, Los Angeles...
...embodiment of man’s most basic inability to comprehend human action. As Pinsky asserts, “Sometimes from the babble a kind of clarity emerges.” Largely compelling, Pinsky successfully calls the reader’s attention to our turbulent world and the pain and suffering felt by so many today. His greatest strength lies in his ability to tie current events to historical themes of curiosity, oppression, and philosophy. Reading “Gulf Music” conjures the image of a society tired of dealing with pain and desperate for an explanation...