Word: sore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boston manager, to turn these potentially good players into a cohesive unit. Boston has long had the reputation as an undisciplined, live-it-up team, and has been a graveyard for managers. When Williams came on-to the scene, he laid down the law: no overweight players, no sore-armed pitchers, no lazy self-centered attitudes. He showed he meant business by benching his good players when they started to lapse back into their old habits...
Finding the war in Viet Nam a "troubling sore point" among the Soviets, Valenti gave his hosts the highest assurance that President Johnson "wanted peace and an honorable settlement." After all, explains Jack, during his White House days he read "every raw inch of intelligence that crossed the President's desk." Otherwise, Valenti found "the spirit of Glassboro very much alive and breathing" during his mission to Moscow, proudly announced that the dozen U.S. entries pulled more than half the festival attendance...
...smashed hatching quail eggs, hurled rocks at the ducks, dropped baby turtles on their backs, pounded away on the shell of the Aldabra tortoise. A Nubian goat bleated in agony as it was pulled from both ends. The baby elephant ran off in terror. A peacock, its tail feathers sore after having been yanked for hours, bit a four-year-old girl in the face. What the kids did not manhandle they made off with, including a number of turtles, pigeons, rabbits and guinea pigs...
Romney faces another test of coattail strength in a second special election for the legislature. In this campaign as well, the Governor is putting his best foot-and sore leg-forward...
...been doing even more wishful thinking about a nose job." She was 14. A Las Vegas 13-year-old scrawled: "I wonder where I could get in on the action." Some are just refreshingly silly: "My problem is my big teeth. They stick out like a sore nose." "Enclosed is a picture of me. My friends think I'm ugly -and I'm not sure." "It's Halloween, and I feel like a witch. Can you help...