Word: sores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colitis. The colon is next to the tail end of the large intestine. It may become sore from emotional strain, passage of rough food, hereditary kinks. The trouble is usually not serious, and a nervous person must learn to "live with his colon." Before going to parties, those who "fill up quickly with gas . . . can often get great relief by taking a teaspoonful of paregoric or a quarter of a half grain of codeine sulfate...
...resort. There, in a much more profuse and coarse-grained way, they settle down to the business of A Farewell to Arms: bedding, drinking, eating, quareling, comedy, conversation. Prudence has a good head and heart but is soaked to the scalp in the reflexes of her class; Clive is sore, experienced, articulate, discourteous. It makes for a lively debate and, with the friend's arrival, for some harsh and vivid reminiscences of World Wars...
...well-to-do Mexican merchant. Father Cacho, owner of Mexico City's two Princesa jewelry stores, was also a friend of President Avila Camacho. He sent word to the President, asked that the case be closed without further investigation. For Brother Manuel it must have been a sore temptation: like most Latins, he is devoted to his brothers. But he was President of Mexico. Said Manuel Avila Camacho: "I desire that strict justice be observed...
...Frazer. The ship 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...
...Nobel Prize for Medicine was divided between Banting and Professor John James Rickard Macleod, his department head who had made the research work possible but had done none of it until after the basic discovery. Banting was sore because he felt that Charles Best, the laboratory assistant who had actually helped him track down insulin, had been slighted. He honored Best in his own impulsive way by giving him half of his own share of the prize money...