Word: pains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the glorious Crimson sent the defeated Dartmouth drunkards back to their tundra turf Saturday for the fifth consecutive year, they hoped that a notably poor prank, in the form of a parody of Cambridge's Only Breakfast Table Daily, would ease the pain of returning to unfulfilled sexual lustings and bottmoless kegs of Budweiser...
Attorney Paul Morantz unlocked the door of his house in Los Angeles last week and put his left hand into the mailbox. "I felt a sharp pain, and then it felt as though my hand was in a vise," he recalls. When he pulled his hand back, he brought with it a 4½-ft. diamondback rattlesnake, its fangs buried near his left thumb. He managed to shake off the snake and ran screaming to a neighbor, who applied a tourniquet that saved Morantz from almost certain death. Fire department paramedics chopped off the snake's head with...
...storyteller and the other a born play wright, Turgenev is sometimes regarded as a precursor of Chekhov. But even the similarities between the two great Russians are deceptive. Chekhov drew a bitingly comic profile of the follies that his provincial characters are prey to; yet he shared their pain. Turgenev fired off comic volleys that riddle his provincial characters' vanity and pretension; but when his people bleed, he casts a cold and worldly eye upon the scene. In Chekhov, longing is the arrow of love, usually un requited; in Turgenev, idle fantasy is the fuse of sex, equally unrequited...
...mystery began Sept. 7, as Markov was walking near Waterloo Bridge to the BBC's External Services Building. In front of a crowded bus stop, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his right thigh and turned to see a heavy-set man carrying an umbrella. "I am sorry," the man muttered in a thick accent, then hopped into a taxi. The same evening, Markov developed a high fever. Four days later he died, but not before telling friends that he thought he had been stabbed by a poison-tipped umbrella wielded by a Communist agent...
When the discovery of the pellet was made public, Vladimir Kostov, another Bulgarian defector and a friend of Markov's, reported a similar incident in Paris. Three weeks earlier as he left the Etoile Metro station, he too had felt a stinging pain. He was ill for a few days, but did not report the incident to the police. When he did so, doctors found a pellet, identical to the one in Markov's thigh, buried in Rostov's back...