Word: sore
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...support for the Black cause during the 1950s could only be muted by the college generation's inability to organize politically and take any direct action, for it was not until after their school years that the issues came to a head. "The question of equal rights was a sore one, but it hadn't really sharpened. There wasn't something--such as the Selma march--to gather around," Harwood, recalls. Even if the rising concern with civil rights ignited a dialogue among students infused with firm political convictions, wide segments of Harvard remained undented, James H. Barton '56 mentions...
Calling the Soviet presence in Afghanistan an "open sore" in U.S.-Soviet relations, the commission contends the U.S. should "respond positively" to requests for military supplies from the Afghan resistance...
...minute private session with Suzuki, Reagan expressed his appreciation for the trade concession and tried to apply diplomatic balm to other sore spots: tie described the ship collision as "tragic" and promised to consult Japan fully on future matters of mutual concern. As the President later put it to Suzuki: "The best way to handle difficulties is to pick up the phone." The two leaders apparently managed to establish a warm, personal rapport. Said Suzuki at the White House dinner: "We were born in the same year and are both proud of being a youthful 70," though the President...
...Atlantic City, the East Coast's first legalized gambling paradise takes form on screen as a sore on the continent's skin, a pustule that bursts every decade or two. The film jumps back and forth among images of demolition and urban renewal: a billboard on a lone, dilapidated building proclaims. "Atlantic City, you're back on the map--again," while in a spectacular shot before the credits director Louis Malle shows us an aerial view of a massive stucco hotel collapsing into a heap of dust and rubble. Malle's Atlantic City is a patchwork of the old corruption...
...jersey. Your legs feel a rush of blood and satisfying pain as you turn for the return race. You race, switch oarsmen, turn around--ten races in all, and you head home, panting, tired and exhilirated. A hot shower is all you ask, and you dress slowly to accommodate sore muscles and tired eyes...