Word: pains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...example, moved the city fathers of Moscow to dispatch several such huge gingerbreads of "honor," one in the form of the coat of arms of the City of Moscow, another in the form of the double eagle. Louis XIV, a gourmet of parts, restored the French counterpart of gingerbread, pain d'epice, to the place of eminence it had enjoyed for centuries in France...
Physicians, to whom morphine is familiar as the best painkiller known to medical science, and addicts, whom in the end it turns into pain-racked skeletons, found much interest in the announcement last week of a synthetic painkiller, which researchers claim is as good as morphine but safer and less habit-forming...
...been checking Demerol's effect on animals. Last week in Boston, before the Federation of American Societies of Experimental Biology, he reported satisfactory results. At the same time Dr. Robert C. Batterman of New York University told of using Demerol on 800 human patients. It quickly relieved postoperative pain, cut down the agony of arthritis and other diseases. Neither Chemist Climenko's animals nor Dr. Batterman's men & women developed any craving for the drug...
...because the leg hurt so badly, but before leaving he told his story: since the war started in '39, he had had seven ships shot out from under him, and the last time only 40 of his 300-man crew got away. As he started to go, with pain written deeply in his face, I asked him where his home in The Netherlands was. "In Rotterdam, sir," he said...
...News Chronicle quoted words spoken by Winston Churchill before he became Prime Minister: "Criticism in the body politic is like pain in the human body. It is not pleasant but where would the body be without...