Word: sore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Afterward F.E.W.'s local vice president protested: "Our boys just started coming out innocently, swinging their dinner pails, and these goons got sore when we didn't lap up their pamphlets." Countered U.A.W.'s Regional Director Pat Great-house: "We were just being peaceful. Would we pick a fight in our overcoats? We ain't scared and we're coming back...
...books, and it is easy to see why. They nodded respectfully to his fine style, but belabored his single-tax theories. What he had to say was said merely with increasing stridency as he grew older. Albert Jay Nock was persuaded that his civilization was creaking badly and in sore need of repair, but all he chose to do about it was to utter the graceful melancholies of an innate Tory who does not care to bring his own talents to the aid of a program...
Despite the sore thumb, Chip will start tonight against the Tigers along with the rest of the group that started against Cornell Saturday. Pete Petrillo will be at forward with Johnny Rockwell, Bill Prior will jump enter, and Dick Covey will team with Gannon at the guards...
...continued and many were administered by Powell himself. Once when there was a disturbance in a study hall, four Negro children were chosen at random to be paddled in Powell's office. "They told us to bend over like when we pray," said one little girl. "I was sore about three days." Later, another child complained: "Mr. Powell whipped me with a paddle one inch thick." Three boys said they were made to sit on the floor for 20 to 43 minutes with their feet propped up on high stacks of books...
White Cards. The Soviet action had been forced by circumstances. As provided by the Berlin constitution agreed on by the four powers after the war, new city elections were due to be held last Sunday. The Communists had taken a sore beating in the last elections (1946), winning only 20% of the popular vote and placing only 26 of their men on the 130-member Assembly. Now, with their prestige at its lowest ebb, they could not afford another free election. So Marshal Vasily Sokolovsky informed the Western commanders that Russia would boycott the Sunday elections; there would...