Word: pains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Czar Alexander I, spreading his claims down the western coast of North America from the Bering Strait to Vancouver Is land, forbade all foreign ships to approach within "100 Italian miles" of shore on pain of confiscation. The U.S. put the world on notice that "the American continents are henceforth not to be considered as subject for further colonization." Further concerned that the "Holy Alliance" of Russia, Prussia and Austria might launch a war to restore newly liberated Latin American nations to the Spanish throne, Madison and Adams warned that the U.S. would view interference as the manifestation...
...would not hold, one of the torturers stuck them on with Scotch tape -and I was burned in the same way on the legs, the groin, the sex and the face. After a few days of this treatment, I was given the bottle torture. It was the most appalling pain. After tying me in a special way, a bottle was thrust in me. I screamed and lost consciousness for, I think, two days . . ." Wrote Novelist Franchise Sagan, one of the many French intellectuals who have rallied behind the cause of Djamila: "There will be impartial gynecologists [at the trial...
...bitterness of recent years, when he was reviled by his stony-faced government and forbidden under pain of exile to accept the Nobel Prize awarded him for his poems and for Doctor Zhivago, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak once wrote: "How hard this life, and long my way of stone." Last week, the indomitable man who succeeded in creating some of modern literature's most eloquent testaments to the unconquerable human spirit came to the end of his stony path...
...come of introducing democracy right now, and fear that the feudal kingdom of Saudi Arabia might fragment if local parliaments were allowed. Frustrated, entangled in bigotry and the ever-sprouting tendrils of corruption in government, Feisal fell seriously ill (most of his life, he has had to endure chronic pain, reportedly the result of a childhood appendectomy). Last week, looking drawn and dejected, he announced that he would leave for Switzerland for medical treatment. King Saud, 58, looking more regally splendid than ever in his new style of democratic monarch, took off for Jidda and Mecca to welcome the year...
...stroke at home, but when she awakes, she is still in the little ward. She is 74. "A good age," the doctor says. But what can be good about it? Her husband is dead. Her only child is married to a poverty-bound painter in Paris. And the nagging pain in her stomach is no mystery to either the doctor or the reader. But though she dreads death, it is the contemplation of life present and past that makes Mrs. Van der Veen touching...