Word: sore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign committee chairmen, Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater and California's Representative Bob Wilson. After listening to President Kennedy's United Nations speech, Ike issued a public statement of praise for an "eloquent" summation of the peaceful aims of the U.S. But privately he was "damned sore" because Kennedy had ignored half a dozen Eisenhower plans for peace and disarmament. Politically, Ike was raring to go. He would be available, he told his visitors, for six or seven campaign speeches next year. Ike also suggested that the National Committee draw up a "statement of principles" that would...
Forced to fall back on second-line pitching when Bob Turley developed a sore arm and Art Ditmar totally lost his effectiveness. Houk unhesitatingly moved Youngsters Roland Sheldon (10-5) and Bill Stafford (13-9) into the regular starting rotation. The high-strung Yankees, who had detested dictatorial Manager Stengel, responded enthusiastically to Houk's subtler brand of discipline. At a time when his every swing counted in his assault on Babe Ruth's home-run record (TIME, Sept. 29), Roger Maris bunted down the third-base line to squeeze the winning run across the plate...
...saddle-sore cowpoke would walk half a block to watch a race between thoroughbreds-skittish, no-account critters that can't do anything but run. But for the chunky, docile quarterhorse, the cowboy has the fond attachment of a co-worker and friend. Bred for blazing speed over extremely short (up to 870 yd.) distances, today's racing quarterhorse is a blood brother of rugged, hard-working range horses. Match races for high stakes have been common ever since the first quarterhorses were broken, and more than one thoroughbred owner has been parted from his bankroll...
...difference what ailed a man, or his wife, or his horse. The nostrum peddlers had a sure cure for it-and generally the same cure. With no legal restrictions, the patent medicine men made limitless claims. One ointment boasted that it could cure "ague in the face, swelled breasts, sore nipples, bronchitis, sore throats, quinsy, croup, felons, ringworms, burns, scalds, shingles, erysipelas, salt rheum, piles, inflammation of the eyes and bowels, bruises, fresh cut wounds, bilious cholic, scrofulous and milk-leg sores, inflammatory rheumatism and gout." Such was the gilded age of the patent medicine in America, as told...
...Beast." Clark Stanley's Snake Oil Liniment was promoted by the slaughter of hundreds of rattlesnakes at the Chicago World's Fair, but contained no rattlesnake oil. "Used external only," it was for "rheumatism, neuralgia, sciatica, lame back, lumbago, contracted muscles, frost bites, chill blains, bruises, and sore throat...