Word: sore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scott] is like a kid who can't be captain, so he quits and hopes the team will lose every game. I should be sore, but I'm not. Fighting with Scott is more fun than going to see Oklahoma...
...Hemingway, who tore his scalp open (52 stitches) in an auto crash in Britain last year, fared better when his car skidded on a wet curve outside Havana, piled up in a ditch. Added to the rich Hemingway collection of nicks. lumps, and bruises†: forehead scratches and a sore knee...
Plasma donations have always been a sore spot in the PBH drive since men are allowed to give blood only every eight weeks during which interest slackens. Furthermore, all donations must be made in Boston, presenting another problem to the committee...
...manner of the purchase was indicative of Nate Cummings' procedure. Last February he took a vacation in Palm Springs and one day rode horseback so hard that he developed a sore, which turned into a carbuncle. Still laid up (when he returned to Chicago), he had to miss a cocktail party given by Horace Armstrong, president of rival Reid, Murdoch. Afterward, when Armstrong called to tell him about the party, Nate asked, "I don't suppose you'd be interested in selling Reid, Murdoch...
Uninformed, certainly. Lacrosse is a contact game and those unfamiliar with the rules have little right to publish their ignorance, representing fight and spirit as sadistic brawling by a gang of "sore losers." Discouraging to all Harvard men who are proud of their teams, who want to see hard-fought, yes, clean games...