Word: pains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain, Germany, Australia, Malaya, is probably carried by a virus. It usually infects only one eye, which becomes bloodshot, swollen, drips tears like a leaking faucet. At first the inner eyelid is speckled red, like trout, later looks like crimson velvet. During the second week there is occasional stabbing pain in the eyeball; after that there is little discomfort except the continual dripping...
...submarine crews. One of his 20 human guinea pigs was Dr. Juan Negrin, Premier of Spain during the last days of the Civil War. Under terrific air pressure, 53-year-old Dr. Negrin and the other subjects (mostly exiles) writhed with the bends, screwed up their faces with the pain of hammering headaches, as Professor Haldane tested the bodily effects of gases at various pressures...
France was in pain. Cold and the want of food and fuel were painful. And if millions of Frenchmen were anguished by collaboration with Germany, so was collaborating Marshal Henri Philippe Petain. He virtually begged Germany for mercy...
...life he leads. Here are all the sudden joys and sorrows, the fear of death, of the white man's law, and of God. Above all here is portrayed the spirit of lazy sunshine and happiness and the native rhythm which enables the Negro to sing of his pain as well as of his pleasure...
...Design for Power recapitulate the recent history of Japan, the U.S., five European countries. Says Professor Schuman on page 290: "The gentle reader who has come thus far in these ungentle pages will doubtless by now be weary and not a little puzzled. A story of grief and pain seven times told is tiresome and baffling. No sane man or woman relishes any such morbid preoccupation with crime and folly...