Word: paining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moshe Dayan spoke. "Sir, we have bad news for you. Nehemia is no more. He has shot himself." The old man turned his face to the wall and wept. An hour later he read Argov's letter: "I know what I am going to do will cause you pain, but I cannot do otherwise. It is not the act of a strong man, and you need strong men about...
Carped the New York Journal-American's Jack O'Brian: "Crosby seemed to smile as if in constant pain. Closeups presented his face with a seemingly endless mouth and large lips which seemed to be pulled vertically apart as if with unseen strings." The Daily News's mild Ben Gross proposed that John "do something to control his twitching." The San Francisco Chronicle's Terrence O'Flaherty found him "nervous as an unprepared high-school valedictorian." And Variety spelled it out: "He forgot entire sentences and cues. He's far too deadpan...
...months, Indonesia's boldest and best-known newspaper editor, Indonesia Raya's Mochtar Lubis, 35, has been under house arrest for speaking up against President Sukarno's drift toward Communism. Last week Sukarno's government took another step toward its goal of "guided democracy." On pain of suspension, other Djakarta newspapers and magazines were warned not even to mention Editor Lubis' name...
...what he was, she forgives him for what he did. Perhaps through his own fault, her father's prophecy that she would be one of the world's greatest musicians has not been fulfilled. But her present highly skillful work shows that in spite of the pain the piano caused her as a child, Ruth Slenczynska has matured enough to turn it into an instrument of pleasure for herself and her listeners...
Where there's tyranny, there's tyranny, not only in the gun barrel, not only in the prison cell, not only in the torture rooms . . . There is tyranny in the facial expression firmly set like iron bars, and in the stillborn tormented cry of pain within these bars...