Word: sore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same cliché: Nous sommes dépassés par les événements (We are outstripped by events). As long as the war in Algeria continued, there was not much hope for peace or stability in neighboring Tunisia and Morocco, and both of them were in sore trouble...
Rothenberg attributed some of the unfilled pledges to a rash of colds and sore throats precipitated by bad weather during the drive. He felt that others simply did not want to give blood, or else were afraid...
...Seat, veteran fleshpeddler and music lover, was sore. The singer whose contract he wanted to buy had everything-a real rock 'n' roll talent and a real gone name. But Seat only had $25,000 to offer, and the kid's record contract alone was worth $40,000. So Elvis Presley stayed with Colonel Tom Parker back there in the fall of 1955 (RCA Victor got the record contract), and all Agent Seat could do was to try to latch onto a suitable substitute. He promptly chased down to Memphis after some cornball named Harold Jenkins...
...with these three men healthy and running, McCurdy still had his problems. Ed Martin, who hasn't had a really outstanding season since his freshman year, was lamed by a sore tendon all fall, while Jim Schlaeppi was simply in poor condition most of the season...
Then he went on to give an extemporaneous homily, recalling how as a little boy with a sore foot he was carried by his father to a religious festival. "Today, riding in the sedia gestatoria, I remembered this. Today, too, I would have been unable to walk, for my knees were weak and my eyes were bewildered and overwhelmed by the events of the last few days . . . It is up to you to draw the conclusion: 'When necessary, have yourself carried by your Father, the Lord...