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...week's end, Michael was weary and his stomach muscles were sore, but otherwise he was in good health and was sneezing only once every eight seconds...
...Jones brought a sore-footed colt named Lawrin to Louisville. If he worked Lawrin, the horse would probably break down; if he didn't work him, he wouldn't be fit for the long Derby grind. Ben got a blacksmith to shoe the horse with heavy protective bar plates, then got one hard work and a race into him. On Derby Day, lightweight shoes replaced the heavy ones and Lawrin must have felt as though he was flying. He romped home...
...indeed, the Tories went. In the last major election test before next year's general elections, they inflicted a stinging defeat on Britain's Labor government, which was still sore from the beating it took at last month's London County Council elections and other county contests (TIME, April 18). All week, on successive voting days, 7,000,000 Britons went to the polls in Britain's first district and borough elections since 1947. All week, the chant of London newsboys sounded to Laborites like the voice of doom. "Socialists lose 15 towns . . . Sweep takes Stoke...
...pages. None of this lovable character delineation appears in the movie; instead Midge becomes a man who just can't lose--an animal who refuses to fall down, either by agreement or because of terrific punishment. He wins his last fight after being beaten silly because he gets sore in the fifteenth round; he dics afterwards of a brain hemorrhage-- ending his career not as a heel, not as a has-been, but as just one thing; the champion, if dead...
Harry Truman called him back. After all, the President argued, Sullivan was sore at Louis Johnson, not at Harry Truman. The resignation would be accepted, sure, but it would have to be rewritten. Sullivan agreed. In a friendly interchange of notes next day, John Sullivan and Harry Truman parted on the best of terms. But Sullivan pasted together all the angry things he had first written to the President, sent them instead to Louis Johnson...