Word: sore
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...damp, disused, musty wharf shed the 50 men stood and sat, impatient, griped, chilled: newsmen, cameramen, radiomen, technicians, bottleholders. They had been waiting a long time-two weeks at Swampscott, Mass., two days at Rockland, Me. They were angry as a bunch of bears with sore haunches. They were the reception committee for Franklin Roosevelt, returning from the greatest fishing trip that any President of the U.S. had ever undertaken...
...strenuous hour of deck tennis, often followed by bowling, swimming and sometimes riding, at which as an old cavalryman he excels. Said one of the younger guests of this program: "Next morning when I tried to get out of bed I fell over myself, I was that sore...
...mind of John Lewis is sore and perplexed his friends say. In the past bitter six years his occasional heavy, snarling irony has become habitual. But, although he broods, his ideal is still the same; he calls it "industrial democracy," or a government in which labor has an equal right with capital. He has seen this ideal labeled as Communism and has heard, in black rage, the assertion that capital, crushed by the New Deal, should be given equal rights with labor...
...boxer does on another in the ring-getting in licks where they hurt the most." Thus a British air authority on the R.A.F. plan in the Battle of Germany. The battle was joined on June 15. For five weeks since then the R.A.F. has pummeled four Nazi sore spots (for the geographical distribution of these raids...
...year-old Major General Frank Maxwell Andrews (Air Forces) succeeds finicky, 62-year-old Lieut. General Daniel Van Voorhis (Cavalry). The Caribbean Defense Command is the biggest field job yet given an Army airman. The change is also a drastic remedy for one of the Army's sore spots. As General Van Voorhis' subordinate air commander, in an area where air defense is paramount, Frank Andrews had been kicked into a back corner, given little chance to do his all-important job. Already tried & proved on the General Staff (in charge of Army training...