Word: pang
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...targets ranged from the ancient Greeks ("Greek tragedy, that unparalleled bore, is confined almost wholly to actresses who have grown too fat for Ibsen") to chiropractors ("heroic pummeling by a retired piano-mover"). Since he was "a skeptic as to all ideas, I have never suffered a pang when the ideas of some other imbecile prevailed...
Once again December 7 fell upon a quiet Sabbath. Sitting amid the strewn wreckage of the Sunday newspapers, many a man & woman remembered with a sudden pang how the news had tornadoed in from Pearl Harbor on an identical afternoon in 1941. On Dec. 7, 1947, millions of Americans still remembered the sense of shock, the surge of challenge...
...read these hasty sentences without a pang, a momentary searching of his own heart. . . . Lieutenant Toland left more than a $3,000 estate. He left his conscience, to a republic which needs...
...pictures of the exhibition reflected Occidental draftsmanship. Alert for the Emergency, by Chang Ting-pang, twelve, was a traditionally Chinese water color of wild geese at the edge of a pond, executed with a few nervous brush strokes. Going to Battle was also pure Chinese pen-and-brush work, sketching a peasant figure whose only modern accouterment was the rifle on his shoulder...
Result: in most cases appetites were so dulled that the patients returned to the prescribed diet without a pang. After a few months they learned to get along without the drug. To find out whether the drug had any bad effects, two of the doctors dosed themselves with it for 48 hours, during which they went without food, drink or sleep: the experience, they reported, was "exhilarating." But the doctors warned that the drug may be harmful to some people or in excessive doses, should not be taken except on prescription...