Word: sores
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Frontal Attack. In Spartanburg, R. C. Wyatt, 79, sore because Waitress Bessie Meheles gave him the cold shoulder, planted dynamite near the restaurant where she worked, blasted off its front...
Wary of the strikers at first, the soldiers soon rubbed sore shoulders with them in neighborhood pubs. Bert's Bar, a dingy shack in Smithfield market, set the tone with an inviting sign: "Bert's Buns Are Better than NAAFI."* Inside soldiers and strikers struck up friendships over mugs of tea and ale. The attitude: "We don't bear the boys any grudge; they can't help but do what they're told." At Smithfield's nearby mahogany-and-gilt pub, "The Hope," soldiers and strikers sipped beer together. Said a happy Guardsman...
Bill Jack kept a straight face, refused to talk to newsmen. But his son, Vice President William Russell Jack, spilled the beans. Cried young Jack: "Bill was sore as hell about the gag rule. They would have fired him if they could, but they didn't want to make a martyr...
Hypochondriac purists will still have a large supply of pessimistic dismay and insomnia to keep them happy, for the first United Nations meeting on American soil dealt inadequately or not at all with many international sore spots. Franco Spain received only a routine rebuke; the veto is still too powerful a weapon in U.N. procedure; and trusteeship questions are still undecided. But the credits outweigh the debits, and the recent General Assembly Session may have charted a road on which nations can travel together in peace...
...There." These were the men who would pick the 1948 GOPresidential nominee, and the corners were full of gossip. Said Wisconsin's greying, amiable Tom Coleman: "Out there it's all Stassen and Dewey." Said Pennsylvania's G. Mason Owlett: "Regular Republicans are sore about those Western speeches Tom Dewey has made, and about his FEPC bill and things like that. I know they get pretty annoyed at some of Dewey's tactics." Said Michigan's Congressman Roy Woodruff: "Arthur Vandenberg is the kind of man the nation needs." Despite these differences, there was little...