Word: sore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They looked so sad that he went in anyhow. No story. The guy was just another guy, name of Faro Mannino, age 25. Same with the dame. She was Eleanor Mannino, age 21. They were sore because they had gotten a divorce last December. They were sitting on opposite sides of the room, waiting to see the judge about the dame getting more money for their baby. Giese had seen a zillion like them. But he decided to give them the benefit of some good advice...
Fiorello LaGuardia, who walks less delicately than Agag, was dropped by his sore-shinned radio sponsor. Five months after Liberty handed him "the freedom of the air," the magazine called it quits. The loud Little Flower was "at variance with our policies," as Publisher Paul Hunter put it. Reported LaGuardia: "Mr. Hunter ... told me . . . the advertisers didn't like my Sunday night radio program. They were pressing him hard. I have lost Liberty," he cried, "but I retain my soul...
...knew at that moment what he was going to do about the strike and about the threat of a resumed coal strike. For weeks he had done everything he had believed it was possible to do, short of getting sore, tough and militant. But he still kept...
...week's end, Chicago had the answer. A rumpled, sore-eyed, unshaven Negro was turned loose on a Chicago side street. (The Daily News set the ransom at $100,000.) Ed couldn't seem to remember the kidnaping, his connection with the policy racket, or anything else. But Bronzeville's memory was excellent. From the pool and dance and spiritualist halls to Dr. Pryor's Holy Floor Wash Factory and King Solomon's Temple of Religious Science, there was holiday. Big Ed was back...
...clue to Goodpasture's revolutionary discovery came from research on a common barnyard disease, fowlpox, which farmers know as "sore head." With an associate, Dr. Alice Miles Woodruff, he hit on the idea of cultivating fowlpox virus in a fertile egg. It was cheaper than the rats, guinea pigs and monkeys which scientists had used previously; it was a sterile medium enclosed in a naturally sterile container. After purchasing an incubator from a mail-order house and a few dozen fertile eggs from a Nashville hatchery, Dr. Goodpasture set to work...