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Word: sore (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...courteous but cool in manner. He has dark, piercing eyes and the swarthy color of a Sardinian (Catalan influence in his native Sardinia accounts for his Spanish-sounding name). He is served well at interminably long party meetings by another physical attribute: he can sit for hours without getting sore or restless. For this, comrades at national headquarters on Rome's Via delle Botteghe Oscure call him culo di ferro, which roughly translates into "Iron Bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Bottom's Up | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

...Simone de Beauvoir, it seems maddeningly unfair that a sufferer from the degenerative disease, life, should in addition be tormented by the petty affliction of being female. In three new novellas she returns to the theme as to a sore tooth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Postponement of Defeat | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

...sore spot on the Radcliffe team has been the lack of any divers, and this deficiency cost the 'Cliffe the meet. The 3-meter diving competition was swept by Springfield College, which also took first and third on the 1-meter board...

Author: By Buster Crabbe, | Title: Cliffies Display Good Swim Form, Placing Second in Regional Meet | 2/13/1969 | See Source »

...proposals for community involvement come in sharp contrast to the innocuous pose of portions of the Wilson report. The dubious social morality of some of the companies Harvard has invested in--including the notorious Mississippi Power and Light--has long been a sore spot for both blacks and whites here. In combination with "discriminatory hiring and real estate policies," the report says that these investment practices make black students feel that "Harvard is uninterested in the 'morality' of its operations." The report's recommendation that Harvard use its fiscal might "to create an environment in which racial justice prevails...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rosovsky's Report | 1/29/1969 | See Source »

...Hardy and Kanuth tired, the Spartans, throwing in platoons of tall, muscular forwards, went on a 7-2 tear to open the half and then exchanged baskets until Harvard tried to mount a counter-charge with 14 minutes left. Sophomore forward Mike Janczewski, bothered the whole week by a sore tendon in his foot, hit a jump shot and then Dover and Gustavson tipped in shots to cut the lead to nine...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Quintet, Skaters Finish Holiday Schedules | 1/6/1969 | See Source »

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