Word: sores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...packed, floodlit Bundestag hall, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer delivered a keynote speech listing Germany's major concerns: the P.W.s held by Russia, the Oder-Neisse boundary deal which ceded a large part of Eastern Germany to Poland, the dismantling of German plants. He also touched on the sore spot of denazification. "The truly guilty," he said, "must be severely punished, but beyond that we can no longer have two classes of people in Germany-the politically reliable and the politically unreliable...
Mikkola held his first meeting of varsity candidates Tuesday and 11 runners from the 1948 squad showed up. Twentyeight were expected. The list of seasoned men is headed by Captain Joe Leeming, Joe Rosen, Dick White, Alden Albee, Henry Everett, and Bill Baker. Baker was hampered by a sore foot most of last season but appears sound again. White was the first Harvard runner to finish in the Big Three last year...
...noted that the Moscow Peace Conference seemed out of tune with Russia's warlike threats against Yugoslavia (see above). "Of course, they will try to make out that this saber rattling is really the cooing of the dove," he explained, "but the dove seems to have a somewhat sore throat...
...whole nation wasn't sick by any means, but there were a few sore spots that needed treatment. In Government lingo, these are known as Grade E areas, with a "very substantial labor supply," which is another way of saying that more than 12% of the workers are out of jobs...
...only a few, but in his 4½ short months of dictatorship he made many enemies. He offended Moslem religious leaders when he proposed that women give up their veils, gain the vote; he alienated the wealthy because he raised taxes, the merchants because he lowered prices. Nationalists were sore because he gave concessions to the U.S. Trans-Arabian Pipeline Co. and signed an armistice with Israel...