Word: sore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months in office have left on the President's face. The smile is as bright as ever but the flesh has aged perceptibly. Colds have caused the President most of his trouble. Last April he was forced to remain indoors for two days with a congested nose and sore throat. In July a slight cold helped him lose two of the seven pounds which he had picked up during his sailboat vacation. In September another head cold and touch of fever again confined him to bed & study, and left a hangover which required a weekend in the sun aboard...
...life good. Days she spends in the field working beside her man. At evening she cooks for her three children and her aged mother-in-law. She has no spare time and knows what the future will be, but her only worries, soon forgotten, are her daughter's sore eyes, her husband's occasional moody discontent. Her happiness is shattered when one day her husband disappears, stays away so long that she knows he is gone for good. But she puts a bold face on it, makes up a stout story that drives her to many a deceitful...
...body. With 300,000 Nanking soldiers in the field and ready to begin the anti-Red drive under Generalissimo Chiang's personal leadership last week, he suddenly summoned all his generals and advisers to a conference at Nanchang, his field headquarters in Kiangsi facing the Soviet Sore Spots. It was possible, declared the Generalissimo, that he might have to place the entire anti-Red campaign in the hands of his subordinate General Liu Tze and rush off to battle in a zone of still greater danger. Ceremoniously, though they all knew that the Generalissimo had made up his mind...
Since Fukien is only 150 miles from Japan's great tea & camphor island of Formosa the ugly possibility of Japanese intervention loomed, should the new "Government" grow obstreperous. Chances of this were good. Adjoining Fukien on the west is "China's Soviet Sore Spot" (TIME, April 27, 1931), pululating with Chinese Communist generals. Should they enter into friendly relations with Fukien they would have for the first time a direct and easy access to the sea. Ominous seemed the fact that the Foreign Minister of the Fukien Government is notorious Chen Yu-jen (Eugene Chen), long the Communistically...
...placard at the left of the stage reads: "Twinkletoes MacDonald will not appear this evening owing to sore feet...