Word: pains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back to Beer. At first F. W. thought that the new era's Olympians were satisfied with their uneventful life. Later, he was secretly informed that more & more Astromentalists were plotting to recreate the old world of pain and sin. In remote regions these retrogrades had made settlements where they kept chickens, cats, drank beer, traded, worshiped in churches, and raised families like beasts...
...main concern was with pain. . . . During [parts of] the operation it filled my whole mind. There was literally no room for anything else . . . one's emotional reaction to pain ... is partly a fear of more pain to come, of its continuing or getting worse...
During one operation, "[I had] a feeling of insecurity, apprehension . . . great pain. I expressed a general euphoria [a sometimes-false sense of well-being]." He also professed frivolity, made such clinical jokes as "I'm against all isms; especially embolism...
Charity amid Disaster. The transportation of our wounded is difficult. Were we to carry them on the shaky litters in the dark, they would suffer unbearable pain and lose dangerously large quantities of blood. Our rescuing angel in this difficult situation is a Japanese Protestant pastor. He has brought up a boat and offers to take our wounded upstream to a place where progress is easier...
Rheumatic old King Cotton let out a loud roar. Partly a roar of defiance, partly a roar of pain, it rose up out of the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, where the National Cotton Council was assembled in annual meeting...