Word: sores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down at a mike at Manhattan's WABC at 6 a.m., one minute later answered the first phone call from a bond-buyer, answered calls for the next 20 hours at the rate of two a minute. At 6 p.m. she complained of a sore neck, asked somebody to hit her. No one did. At 2 the following morning she had taken $1,977,450 worth of orders...
...mostly by Harold Rome; produced by the Youth Theater) brought to Broadway a bunch of youngsters who for several years have contrived some amiable side-street shindigs. Their grown-up party is a bust: their high spirits produce silliness; their satire goes sour; their amateurism sticks out like a sore thumb. A topical revue, Let Freedom Sing purveys standing jokes (the WAACs, Washington overcrowding, hoarding, snooty refugees) without giving them a single new twist. Composer Rome's tunes have none of the lilt he put into Pins and Needles and Sing Out the News, and his lyrics have none...
...infantry attack they nipped off a small wedge which Rommel was holding near the center of the El Alamein line. This was Montgomery's first round. His troops were ready. Their victory a month ago, when they hurled Rommel back, hurt and bloody, had bucked up the sick, sore, tired Imperials. The Eighth Army wanted to get moving...
...Paul Smith wrote a sizzling letter of correction to the New York Daily News's Washington Correspondent John O'Donnell. He was sore at O'Donnell's waspish cracks at OWI's proposed budget and his ribbing Archibald MacLeish about an OWI dinner at Washington's Carlton Hotel (TIME, Oct. 5). "You're nuts, John," wrote Paul. "Mr. MacLeish had nothing to do with the dinner check. It's nobody's damned business. I paid it. The dinner was $7.50 a plate-not $6 as reported. The total was $369.55." Last...
...Marines were busy; the lieutenant was on the pan; the wire services had spread the story. Reluctantly Old Tack pondered, then cut the E from its frame and gave it to the beaming lieutenant. Said Gene Howe: "It's only an incident, and there are no sore spots on us. The lieutenant is doing a most excellent job of recruiting and ought to have the E himself." On the bare frame which had contained the E Publisher Howe hung a mourning wreath...