Word: sore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...implications, and probably the real roots, of the row went beyond the sore question of Poland's boundaries and Government. But, at least on the surface, that troubled issue had precipitated the quarrel...
Napoleon's observation that a soldier will walk through hell to get a ribbon for his tunic did not mean that a given amount of hell invariably produced a given ribbon. To fighting men before and since, the inequities of medal awards have always been a sore subject. The current issue of the official Marine Corps Gazette gives Marine Captain Richard G. Hubler a chance to dig the old subject up again for World...
...Federal Government." Maine's silver-topped Wallace H. White, G.O.P. Senate spokesman while Oregon's Charlie McNary is ill, was ready to go to "extreme lengths" to get the issue settled quickly. Said he: "It would be a calamity if we ... left eight to ten million soldiers sore, disappointed and resentful against their Government.... If there ever was a time when we should adjust controversies, this...
Doctors Disagree (by Rose Franken; produced by William Brown Meloney) is a piece of pill-coated sugar. Glibly combining heart interest with brain operations, Playwright Franken (Claudia, Outrageous Fortune) keeps an assortment of problems churning. Sore beset is Miss Franken's doctor heroine (Barbara O'Neill) whose neurologist beau (Philip Ober) doubts whether a woman can qualify as a good surgeon. No sooner is he proved wrong than he starts doubting whether a good surgeon can qualify as a woman. The poor girl, meanwhile, is in an awful pickle about disregarding professional ethics in order to save...
...business to fight, right? A physical altercation can spoil the nickels. 'Derelict,' I say, 'don't disturb my equanimity.' So again he insults me-a hollow hulk like that. So I say to him: 'Your idiocy is very refreshing.' So he gets sore and wants to fight. So I say to him nice and polite: 'Hey, bum,' I said, 'stop knocking yourself out. The door's open. Beat...