Word: pains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fates finally caught up with Dave in his junior year, when he fell victim to a vicious case of tennis elbow. "It was so acute," says Dave, "That I couldn't even get out of a chair without pain...
...first symptom of frostbite is a tingling sensation in the extremities. The skin turns slightly red at first and then becomes pale grayish-yellow and numb. Pain subsides and sometimes blisters begin to appear. At the first signs, the victim should be brought inside and the affected parts warmed with tepid, not hot water. Snow should never be massaged on a frostbitten area. Second-and third-degree frostbites are treated like burns; sometimes victims are hospitalized. Thus it is only commonsensical to suit up for winter as if it were a mortal foe-which it can be (see box following...
...well-constructed paragraphs can exert a magical force on his auditors, who generally realize too late (as Simon's do) that he is using words not to reveal but to conceal. He also uses them as he does his phonograph - to drown out the sounds of pain, to keep everyone at a distance from his precious, empty self. It is a perversion of language's basic function, almost a parody of it, and a clear and present danger of literacy, which, like any virtue, can be carried to excess. It is wise of Gray to note the phenomenon...
...With the pain of a fingernail being pulled...
Though the document cited Scripture, it relied more heavily on tradition, perhaps because the Vatican's own Biblical Commission concluded last spring that nothing in the Bible specifically forbids women priests. The new decree acknowledged that female ordination represented "an ecumenical problem" that would "perhaps cause pain." It insisted that its rejection of women as priests would "help in deepening understanding of the respective roles of men and of women." There was no question of equality involved, it said, because "priesthood does not form part of the rights of the individual" but derives from "the mystery of Christ...