Word: sore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...situation" in the U.S. He had no discernible proof for the charge. By week's end Jackson conceded that "these hearings have not turned up any hard evidence that the major oil companies deliberately created the crisis." After the buffeting by Jackson and his colleagues, the oilmen were sore and furious. "They made me feel I was at a criminal trial," said Gulf Oil Co. U.S. President Z.D. Bonner...
Porter, getting a chance to play while veteran Archie Clark rested a sore elbow, scored 15 of his 23 points in the third period of the nationally-televised game at Boston Garden...
Soft Terrain. Earth Shoes owe their appearance in the U.S. to Jacobs' wife Eleanor, who first came across them in a small Copenhagen shop. "I tried them on and immediately my sore back felt better," she says. That discovery led the Jacobses to track down the shoe's designer, Anne KalsØ, a yoga teacher who had for years observed the effects of shoes on posture. On a trip to South America she confirmed a favorite theory: lower heels mean better carriage. The Brazilian Indians, she decided, owed their erect stance to long years of sinking barefoot heels...
...yard dash has been a sore spot for the Crimson for some time, but Alan Yates snatched first in 6.4 seconds, with Alan Boyer coming in third. B.C.'s Mahoney took second in the event...
Columbo treats his invariably rich and stylish suspects with politeness, even deference. He apologizes for taking up their valuable time. He prattles incessantly in a New York accent that seems to be coming down with a sore throat. He gee-whizzes over their luxury houses, stopping in mid-sentence to ask ingenuously what the property taxes might be on such a splendid estate, pausing to work them out in terms of his $11,000-a-year salary. His darting, jabbing gestures carve lexicons in the air. He interrupts interrogations to rummage in pockets crammed with scrappaper reminders of marketing chores...