Word: sore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blue Cross and Blue Shield do not cover minor illnesses such as colds and sore throats. On this score the Hygiene Department has the advantage; yet the cost of caring for such minor ailments must not constitute a very considerable proportion of the Department's expenses, since all the patient usually receives is advice to go buy a box of aspirin and a package of cough drops at Billings and Stover. Should the student require x-rays, anesthetics, special materials, or special laboratory examinations, he must pay for them himself. Care in Stillman is limited to one week per term...
...Spain is a festering sore on the conscience of the Western powers." So writes Emmet John Hughes in the best-informed book* yet published on post-civil-war Spain. The present U.S. attitude toward Franco, says Author Hughes, "can only hasten the likelihood of civil war and facilitate the rapid growth of Communism in Spain. . . . The Western democracies have failed to evolve and express a clear, purposeful policy that would free Spain's democratic forces from the deadly Fascist-Communist cross fire in which they have been placed...
...picture strikes one very queer note: its infatuation with breadwinning as the real measure of stability and wholesome family life. When Scott gets good & sore at his wife, he just can't give a hoot for moneymaking, and that neglect is represented as close to the ultimate catastrophe. But he recovers. Within a few hours after she has killed a man in her parlor, and is still suffering from shock, he leaves her, with her entire approval, for more important matters at The Office...
...dessus la Téte." In France, the picture was even clearer. A little man had got good & sore at the Communists. When Paul Ramadier took office (before anyone had heard of the Truman Doctrine), he was generally considered an inoffensive type with some administrative ability. But the Communists pushed him around too much. During the last Government crisis (TIME, May 12), he suddenly declared: "J'en ai par-dessus la téte (I'm fed to the gills)," and fired the Communist Ministers. It was the Truman Doctrine that gave him the means to stay...
Lately, there has been a degree of politeness in the elevators here in the TIME & LIFE Building that would be considered extraordinary anywhere. Practically everyone has had a sore arm or a sore leg-the result of vaccination for smallpox-and an understandable desire to protect them from sudden onslaught...