Word: sorer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seepage of joint secretion." It wasn't enough to force an ordinary horse out of competition, but Jones was taking no chances with his wonder horse. He loaded Citation on an express car for Florida and three months of rest and treatment. The news left some Southern Californians sorer than Citation's ankle. They wanted to see him run in two $100,000 races at Santa Anita...
...suffered a severe diplomatic defeat. The Argentine Government had shown real strength. Never, at week's end, had the U.S. Pan-American policy been in sorer straits...
Less than convincing were the shoulder-shruggings of the Axis, particularly since, as the week progressed, German and Italian spokesmen grew sorer by the minute, called the speech "hypocritical," "nonsensical," "demagogic," "plethoric...
...sailed. Safely at sea, Reporter Frazer appeared as a stowaway. He had figured that British naval authorities would laugh off his stunt as a smart newspaper scoop, play ball with him in order to cash in on the romantic publicity. Instead the Canadian Navy got sore at him, still sorer at the Boston Herald...
...preparing to take a final vote, strode Assistant Secretary of the Treasury John Lawrence Sullivan. He told the Senators that the Treasury would have to disown their bill, suggested they start all over again. Sore, the Senators sent for Henry Morgenthau, who con firmed his assistant's verdict. Sorer, the Senators defiantly reported their version anyhow...