Word: painful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...request of a friend of mine, a sporting editor of a Chicago paper," De Voto began, "I agreed to write an article on football. In this I mentioned the physiological fact that excitement causes adrenalin to flow through the veins of the athletes, deadening pain, supposing this to be a commonly known fact. Whereupon a Des Moines writer accused me of libel, saying that I had falsely accused Conference coaches of doping their...
...ineffective. But Machinal does something far more important than provide entertainment. Sometimes it stretches taut the bare thread of its narrative, and like An American Tragedy it has moments which are so true that they are tragic. In these moments the disorderly processional of those who are born in pain to death in sorrow comes abruptly to have a frightening and enormous significance...
...imagine the pain you have caused me, my wife and the members of my family and the multitudes of my friends all over the world with this base story of my divorce. I must ask you, Sir to contradict and apologize for the statements you have made in a very prominent place in the Newsmagazine in your next issue and to send me a copy containing the apology and explanation to the following address: 6908 North Ashland Ave., Chicago, Ill., c/o Mr. Eddie Young, who is my secretary and where I expect to arrive at the end of August...
...once fell off a precipice of Mount Saentis. He lit on his head and distinctly heard the thud. Stout, he recovered; introspective, he recalled his falling sensations. Delicious music soughed by his ears. He was very calm. Only after an hour from his rocky landing did he feel the pain of his broken bones...
...airplanes, with foiled suicides. From all he got a concurrence of testimony: that their thoughts were lucid and followed each other with weird swiftness, that they were fully aware of, and resigned to death, that music sounded. Some felt as if they were passing through rosy clouds. None felt pain immediately upon striking earth. Such too are symptoms of asphyxia. People who tumble from great heights are slowly stifled unconscious, dead...