Word: sore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British spirit could slough into disastrous quiescence and defeatism. Britain cannot work out of its sore trouble unless the people give up much of the little they now have, but they have great capacity to do without...
Schoolmaster President. But in the capital the fincas' future was a sore political issue. Landowners, lawyers and businessmen complained bitterly about the turn of history that had put so much of the country's wealth in government hands. Some complained even more bitterly about an accident of politics-a 1944 revolution staged by a few young Army officers with a little help from the Left...
...Said another: "He goes ... I say he gets it." The man in the street didn't want to see Rocky "get it" too hard. Rocky had turned down the bribe, even if he hadn't reported it (though he had reportedly feigned a sore back to duck the fight). Last week the New York Athletic Commission barred Graziano indefinitely from New York rings. The ban meant the end of next month's Madison Square Garden title fight with Middleweight Champ Tony Zale. But all was not lost: from hungry promoters in Cleveland, Chicago and points west came...
...Jinnah screamed "uncalled-for aggression," declared that the League could never join Hindus in a unified Assembly, asked Britain to dissolve the body. The Chamber of Indian Princes also slapped at the Congress Party, indicating that Moslem members might join with Jinnah in opposing Indian unification. The princes were sore at what the Nawab of Bhopal called a "campaign of misrepresentation and vilification of the princely order...
...hard money" countries (the U.S., Canada, Switzerland) is more unfavorable than was calculated a year ago. The hard fact is that Britain has sold too little in the "hard money" markets (only about 14% of her exports), while buying heavily (about half of her imports) in those markets. A sore point in her U.S. buying: prices went up about 31% in 1946. That is why Sir Stafford keeps urging: "Save dollars...