Word: sore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...promptly arose of extending the session of Congress deep into the summer in order to work out a new tax bill. Every responsible New Deal leader in Congress recognized that prolonging the session to pass a major tax bill was a first-rate risk. A Congress ragged with fatigue, sore from repeated White House whippings, cross at the loss of its vacation, is not an easy Congress to control. Toss it a controversial measure, keep it idling for several sizzling weeks while a bill is being concocted and such a Congress is more than apt to go on a rampage...
Next day a joint resolution was introduced in the House to carry out the President's program. After four resonant whereases, the resolution reached the two sore spots...
...clock: "If we stay here much longer, Mr. President, it will soon be time for the senior Senator from Texas, Mr. Sheppard, to make his annual speech on Prohibition. . . . Men are yawning; men's eyes are bleary; men's souls are tired; their feet are sore; their heads are heavy; they are needing rest; they are needing sleep; they are needing nourishment; and it is only two days from Saturday, when most of them will want to take a bath...
Keith Brown may reach great heights in the pole vault as he seeks revenge for a sore defeat from Dubiel at the heptagonals and looks ahead to the coming IC4A games...
...Hall, who took second in both high jump and shot on Saturday in spite of a sore groin, is now bothered with an upset stomach which it is hoped will disappear before the meet. Dubiel has picked up considerably since Saturday and may show some surprising wins...