Word: sore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over a hill. . . . There were fifteen tanks so we started blazing away with the 75-mm. blanks. When we were within 300 yards of the tanks they started firing back, what a noise. The tanks aroaring, the 75's going off, and the machine guns started. ... I am sore today. My arms and body, just all of me. I wouldn't be in that outfit for a million dollars...
...Hall is no longer used as a dinning hall. In past years, in fact, it has been scarcely used at all and the cry has been frequently raised for its destruction--"an architectural hodge-podge," it is called, "an anachronism and a sore-spot...
...sore straits, Field Marshal Albert Kesselring brought down from the north the once-famed Hermann Goring Division, which had been wiped out in Tunisia and since reconstituted. Another reinforcement was an infantry division which had been fighting Marshal Tito's Yugoslav Partisans at Istria. Prisoners from one regiment of reinforcements told Allied intelligence officers that half their motor transport and personnel had been destroyed on the way to the front by Allied air action, and that the remainder were decimated, as soon as they took up their line positions, by Allied tank attacks...
...series of uncensored articles in the Christian Science Monitor. First victim was big Brazil, which most people in the U.S. think of as a great & good friend of democracy. Correspondent Sharp found much to admire, much to praise. But he blasted the dictatorial methods of President Getulio Vargas. Sore point: the rigid censorship ("so urbane and clever that it lulls many correspondents into voluntary compliance with its blackout of the free press"). Wrote Mr. Sharp...
Since Westbrook Pegler is almost always attacking somebody, his attacks are sometimes embarrassingly ill-timed. Last week Pegler chose to belabor Navy Secretary Frank Knox; he was sore because Publisher Knox had "suppressed" Pegler's syndicated column in the Chicago Daily News (TIME, April 24). The reasons, according to Pegler: 1) the Daily News would print nothing unfavorable to Marshall Field because his Chicago Sun is a tenant of the News building; it would print nothing favorable to the Sun's powerful morning adversary, Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick and his Chicago Tribune...