Word: sore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Former Attorney General Herbert Brownell, who steered Tom Dewey to prominence and helped catapult Ike into the presidency, emerged from seven years of political retirement to run Keating's campaign. "This thing got me sore," he said. "If Kennedy is elected, it will establish that a rich man can come in, make a deal with bosses, and change our whole constitutional system. H. L. Hunt could go in and run in some Rocky Mountain state. Governor Wallace could run where he pleased. This is outrageous...
When Rebecca Craighill Lancefield was a child around the turn of the century, scarlet fever seemed a dangerous disease that was easy enough to diagnose but difficult to treat. The victim got a raging sore throat, a high fever, and a rash that spread over most of his body and gave the illness its name. But physicians and bacteriologists found that though they could suppress the rash, they could do little else for their patients. Researchers also found that patients who had one bout of scarlet fever might never have another, but if they got the same kind of sore...
Practically in the Pink. Cards Manager Johnny Keane had just the pitcher: Righthander Gibson, 28, a tall, handsome Negro who had 1) a bruised hip, 2) a swollen ankle, 3) a sore arm, and 4) only two days of rest. In other words, Gibson was practically in the pink. "He was born sick," recalls his mother, "and he got sicker. He had rickets, hay fever, asthma, pneumonia and a rheumatic heart. I hardly let him out of the house until he was four years...
...Queen was coming, and many French Canadians thought Elizabeth of England was unwelcome. Like an old sore suddenly scraped open, French nationalism is raging anew in Quebec after two centuries of British domination. An impatient generation of French Canadians demands more autonomy and a stronger voice in the country's affairs. Some even preach outright secession from English Canada; the more passionate have been punctuating their cries with mailbox bombings, arms raids and threats against the Queen's visit-even her life...
...this season. Three have come on passes from Roberts to Roger Dennis, a junior wingback. Roberts has scored the other two himself on runs. In both games he has passed for more than 200 yards and he has completed 26 of 68 passes. He explains apologetically that a sore thumb has kept him below his career record of completing 60 per cent of his passes...