Word: sores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first few years of its perilous existence is still somewhat of a mystery because the first mention of music performed is in 1810, Handel's Air." The following year the Pierian anticipated playing Handel's "Waterpiece" at Commencement, but "the member who plays the 2nd Clarionett having a sore jaw, occasioned by the Extraction of a tooth, it was judged necessary to apologize to the Seniors and decline playing." The following year, however, a brilliant comeback was staged when its first concert was performed...
...fugitive slave in the Stowe parlor; Harriet delivering a big, meant-to-be-timely speech-are poorly contrived, patly inserted. But Actress Hayes, acting with her usual skill, aging with her usual art, creates, if not a great and rounded woman, a bustling housewife who is also sore beset...
Ashore, the Commandos began the long, exhausting climb to the mountain top, beyond which lay the bridge they must destroy. Soon their cheeks were "streaked to the neck with charcoaled sweat, and the neck raw from chafing collar . . . the nostrils sore from running mucus. . . . There was pain in . . . the stooped shoulders straining downwards away from the pack . . . in the bent spine, in the small of the back. . . . Pain in the strung thighs, red pain in the chafed buttocks . . . in the gooseflesh skin of the thigh where a holster, or a knife in ihe trouser pocket, rubbed with the polish...
...think of him in a black gown. Philosophized Arnold: "I guess I'm like the Marx brothers-they can be awfully funny for a long while, but finally people get tired of them. A lot of the bureaucrats are not only tired of me but also awfully sore...
...well-organized army, soldiers who obey their marching orders stay out of trouble and win the fight. But in disorderly Washington, Jeffers got nothing but sore feet for his pains. He made a lot of enemies, convinced many an observer that his "bulling through" was simply bullheaded, got a dressing down this week from the House subcommittee. But Washington needs more men who will risk their hides to carry out their orders. It also needs policymakers-and organization-which will guarantee that the orders make sense...