Word: sore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grave charges may be leveled against the United Nations, and more especially against the big four who dominate it. Overemphasis has been placed on the urgency of patching up the local sore spots of a still unhealthy world. The real cures to be derived from settlement of the war and active promotion of the peace are strangely neglected. On May first, the Peace Conference is scheduled to begin, and we suddenly realize that not one real treaty agreement has been reached. With bright optimism the Big Four foreign ministers announce plans to meet on April 25th, allowing five days...
Ravaged, still-disputed Manchuria was the ugliest wound that would have to heal before the pattern of Chinese unity could be complete. To heal other sore spots in Shansi, Honan and Hupeh provinces, tireless U.S. Peacemaker George Marshall toured North China, working in the difficult lower political levels to win practical realization of the military truce he and China's top leaders had arranged. Amid his stops was isolated Yenan, capital of Chinese Communism. There he remained overnight, caught cold watching an elaborate performance of drum dancers and folk singers in an icy auditorium, had a long talk with...
Good to the Last Drop. In San Francisco, Sherwood Unkefer, sore at losing $475 in a holdup, charged after the fleeing bandit, who held him up again, took a $2,200 ring...
...angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them, and they were sore afraid...
...their motor, laughing. Were they laughing at me? I wondered uneasily; and as I sauntered across the fields I vaguely cursed those misbelievers. Yes, yes, their eyes should be darkened, and their mocking lips put to silence. They should be smitten with the botch of Egypt, and a sore botch in the legs that cannot be healed...