Word: sore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...going is more important than speaking out and possibly going out of business," said Chosun Ilbo Editor Pu in a forthright defense of pusillanimity. Said another leading editor: "We have a country boy running Korea now. He's not sophisticated. There's no sense in getting him sore...
...when friends reminded him of two news stories by the President's good friends Columnist Joe Alsop and the Chattanooga Times's Charlie Bartlett, which detailed Bowles's difficulties. The stories, plus the lunch, could only mean he was being fired. As soon as he got sore, Bowles proved to be no pushover. With familiar Madison Avenue skill, he and his pals leaked a spate of stories on the sinister plot to send him into exile. Their catchy, if misleading pitch: "It will be a curious result if the first head to roll after the Cuban affair...
Bowles stayed home most of the rest of the week, ostensibly to prepare for his trip. But he was still sore, and he was still mounting a publicity campaign to keep his job. At week's end it was clear that by turning his survival into a battle that rocked the State Department, Chester Bowles had destroyed his own usefulness and ensured his eventual removal...
...hour trip on an open deck. He returned to the White House later that afternoon, underwent about a 15-minute physical examination from Dr. Travell. All seemed to be going well. But at 1:30 o'clock the next morning. John Kennedy awoke with a sore throat, an aching head, a queasy stomach. The President took his own temperature, then put in a hurried call to Dr. Travell at her Foggy Bottom home...
...students from violence. Kennedy was deciding to trust Barnett and withhold federal forces from Mississippi when he got word that still another integrated bus contingent, led by Yale University Chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr., was starting out for the South. Cracked Harvardman Kennedy: "Those people at Yale are sore at Harvard for taking over the country, and now they're trying to get back...