Word: sore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grated Carrots. Behind the court-martial was a tender Army sore spot. Needled mercilessly for "wasting" the nation's young scientific brains in routine basic training, the Army high command had set up a policy of assigning draftees with some scientific education to special groups such as the Enlisted Scientific and Professional Personnel. Fresh from campuses and freer academic life, the ESPPs kicked hard against regimentation, cut sloppy military figures, took to hissing noncoms and arguing with officers...
...enclosing several efforts of mine (and these were syndicated) just to prove I am not saddle sore from being astride the fence...
Such loyalty to the saddle-sore traditions of the old West is not the sort of thing Businessman Gruber intends to push past the end of a trend. For he still figures he can write anything that the public is willing to buy. Says he: "Science fiction has been gaining, and if it ever gains enough, I'll switch...
...cried to a friend, "where are we going to take my wife to dinner? She's been waiting since 5:30 and she's going to be plenty sore. Let's take her to a good restaurant, how about it?" He flipped down the station wagon's sun visor, studied a typewritten timetable of industrial plant and shopping-center openings and closings. Said he, ruefully: "We'll only have about 20 minutes to eat-we have to be in Flushing by 8. I want to catch that crowd at the shopping center. We have...
...been working hard on a short-passing game. Injuries, however, may soften the punch of a usually hard-hitting scoring line. Chris Martin, a wing forward, will be missing from the field on account of a pulled tendon, while Philip Bernstein, outside left, will be hampered by a sore ankle...