Word: sore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Apparently gone were all hopes of a balanced budget in this generation. In a budget that was itself a great fact-biggest in peacetime, second biggest of all U. S. history-this great fact stood out like a large sore thumb. The budget was a "document full of human meaning," as the Newark News noted. Like the budgets of Mr. Average Citizen, it was full of unjustifiable errors of judgment, of expenses borne out of habit, of big installments still being paid on past mistakes. Like private budgets, too, was its patient, powerless, hopeful meaninglessness: there was no magic...
...muscled, Michelangelesque drawing for $60, a Rembrandtesque oil for $650. An expert at accurate anatomy and spitting imagery, Artist Klinghoffer has been working with charcoal, pen and pencil ever since she can remember. Says she, with a London-influenced Austrian accent: "I drew like that before I ever sore any old masters...
...began, promptly ordered 1,500 sheets of its Nonesuch edition from England. Just as promptly the Nazis bombed them out of existence. Says Publisher Cerf: "I know for sure that no sheets of the Nonesuch Donne exist in England." Whether the plates also had been destroyed, he was not sore...
...week's end, the infected tooth which had been bothering the Duchess had been pulled, and she was reading her fan mail in a hospital, nursing a sore...
...feared a repetition of the great pandemic of 1918-19, but the Army's Surgeon General James Carre Magee assured them that it was not the same sort of flu. Despite the wildfire contagion, symptoms everywhere were mild. Most of the victims had only slight fever, sniffles, headache, sore limbs, backache, a tight feeling in the chest. Although Los Angeles had about 50,000 cases, only 70 deaths had been reported at week's end. mostly among people who were finished off by pneumonia. But in many communities, daily life was completely disrupted. Local disruptions...