Word: sore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even before the verdict, it was plain just how passionately the Simpson case pressed upon the sore spots of the American racial psyche. On Thursday Bill Clinton said he was "concerned" about Cochran's play to racial feeling in his final arguments: "I hope the American people will not let this become some symbol of the larger racial issue in our country...
Reflecting the growing interest in alternative therapies, especially for chronic ailments that mainstream medicine can't cure, more and more health specialists are urging patients to try such homeopathic remedies as ground honeybee for a sore throat, cuttlefish ink for hemorrhoids and bushmaster snake for hot flashes. An estimated 40% of chiropractors--and even some medical doctors--regularly recommend such substances. According to the National Center for Homeopathy, Americans today are spending more than $165 million a year for the preparations, and sales are rising 20% to 25% annually. Says Gilbert Weise Sr. of Jacksonville, Florida: "When I advertise that...
...here is that seeing the new digs makes visitors think of money, and talking about money, as we have seen, makes Crichton sore. In fact, he is tight with a buck and says so. The little software company he formed in the early '80s came about because he saw movie man-hours being squandered on tasks computers could dispatch in minutes. (One more entry for the give-us-a-break file: he won an Academy Award for technical achievement for this assistance to studio accountants.) He wonders crankily about society's fierce curiosity about how much money people make...
...photo shoot lasted 10 hours and it was very painful," Johnson-Arbor said. "I had to hold my body in these contorted positions, point my toes and arch my back for four or five hours at a time. I was really sore afterwards...
Throw into that mix freshman Armando Petruccelli, a member of the U.S. national team, and Penn State transfer Richard Wilmot--a junior--and one can see that Harvard has the potential of giving famed soccer announcer Andres Cantor a sore throat...