Word: painful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...against those adults who have made winning such an issue that children's baseball, once an enjoyable sport, becomes such an ordeal that a little eight-year-old boy wets his pants in public from fear. And what is worse is that it is not physical fear of pain; it is fear of certain humiliation...
...says, and moves in the studio to a nearby figure, a more distorted yet far more powerful version of the same theme (see second color page, lower right). A woman almost bursting with the life of a new child? An earth bursting with spring? A moment swollen with the pain and hope of living? Were these what he was trying to convey in the figure...
...believe that the idea of Hell is a true one in the sense that God will send some people to an eternity of pain if He sees...
...existence of undeserved pain and suffering in the world...
...cost more sweat and legislative pain than any other act since Taft-Hartley. Jack Kennedy's political prestige was committed to the relatively mild Kennedy bill (even though it had been beefed up in a floor fight led by Arkansas' John McClellan), and the Kennedy bill passed the Senate 90-1. President Eisenhower's power and prestige were committed to the sterner bill sponsored by Georgia Democrat Phil Landrum and Michigan Republican Robert Griffin which he had bulled through the House (229-201) with his effective television appeal (TIME, Aug. 17). Few old hands on Capitol Hill...