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...mixed drinks for $1.25. Father Jim, as Reynolds is called, anticipated the puns, so the first drinkers had to endure the priest's own pre-emptive patter: holy water on the rocks; Blue Nun; we specialize in Christian Brothers. The bar rolled merrily along until midsummer, when a sorehead entered the equation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: Have a Drink, for Heaven's Sake | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

...funded delegates were "tainted," he showed no desire to seek a ruling on the issue from the convention credentials committee. The delegates involved in the controversy are from New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois, all of which were carried convincingly by Mondale. Hart knows that he would risk a sorehead image if he were to push that challenge personally at the convention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Over the Top, Barely | 6/18/1984 | See Source »

There's no place like home for the holidays ..." That certain time of year being at hand, this sentiment from Home for the Holidays will soon be crooning forth repetitiously from all the mellow music stations. More power to it. Only a sorehead would fuss about too much celebration of the idea of home during the festive winter season. For that matter, home deserves a good deal of hymning all the time. There is, as the wonderful old song Home, Sweet Home established once and for all, no place like it-and this no matter what sort of place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Why There Is No Place Like It | 11/29/1982 | See Source »

...President Hafez Assad, the Soviet Union, the Palestine Liberation Organization and the main rejection-front states, Iraq, Libya and Algeria. Last week the anti-Sadat forces gathered in Tripoli at the behest of Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi, who called the participants the "steadfast states." (Others dubbed the conference the "sorehead summit.") A second meeting of the rejectionists is supposed to take place in Baghdad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Goodbye, Arab Solidarity | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

...comes home such a sorehead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Comediva | 7/17/1964 | See Source »

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