Word: sore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...political power charged the proceedings with electric confidence. Under the watchful presidency of ex-miner Ebby Edwards, delegates barged through their business like a bulldozer through the brush. For the pressing problems currently besetting the Government there was tolerance and understanding. Even on the T.U.C.'s tenderest sore point-the Government's dilatory demobilization plan-delegates pulled their punches. This was their Government: it must get every chance...
Although the other two members of the Big Three were not yet ready to eliminate this sore, Harry Truman was undaunted. He said that the proposition would be brought up before the Council of Foreign Ministers, and that the U.S. would "press for its adoption...
Four days after Pearl Harbor, when the bill authorizing the President to send troops overseas was up for debate, he pushed himself feebly to his feet on the Senate floor to croak: "I object." Since that day, Hi Johnson, tired, sick and sore, had spent more of his time in his office or in hospitals, dreaming of the Presidency he never won. This week, as it must to all men, Death came in the 79th year to the California dissenter, one of the great independents of U.S. politics...
...plenty sore at the civilians," one guy began confidentially. Horn tried not to be snotty. He drank and drank but he was cold sober when he finally left the place and walked the girl home...
Direct Hit. In Seattle, James Hearn sustained a sore neck when he lost his balance, fell three floors down an air shaft, landed in an easy chair...