Word: sores
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sore point is called Palena by the Chileans and Rio Encuentro by the Argentines. It consists of 260 mountainous square miles inhabited by wind-battered trees, 240 people and a few head of hardy livestock - in short, precious little and little precious. But because of a surveyor's faulty maps, the arbitrated border was inexactly placed, and regardless of the land's lack of value, both countries heatedly denounced the boundary. For years objections flew back and forth, but it was all fairly harmless until 1963, when Argentine gendarmes suddenly strung up a barbed-wire fence where they...
...recuperation continued-L.B.J. style. Though the President's throat was still sore from the removal of the polyp on his vocal cord, he held lengthy, vigorous phone conversations with Administration leaders in Washington. The President stayed in his room late some mornings, but he was not, it was explained, being a slugabed. Propped up on pillows, he labored over intelligence reports, diplomatic cables, and of course the federal budget. The word went out from the ranch that $1.1 billion-25% of the $4.4 billion total allocated-would be chopped from the federal highway program, an economy move that...
Notre Dame played almost all of the game without its great passing quarterback, Hanratty, who went off the field with a shoulder separation midway in the first quarter, and the whole game without its best runner, Nick Eddy, who had a sore shoulder. The Spartan defense took care of the rest. It triple-teamed Irish End Seymour so effectively that he did not catch a pass; in all, Notre Dame gained a grand total of only 219 yds. Thirty-four of those yards came on a touchdown pass from Coley O'Brien, Hanratty's replacement, to Halfback...
...these words Jonathan sank into shame for he was much afeared of tigers. The angel of the Lord was sore angry at this and proclaimed "Thou darest not be so slack of courage," and with twain he gave Jonathan a blow which made him sore...
...thirteenth year of the reign of Nathan and in the third of the reign of Kingman a slew of winged seraphim spitting hellfire descended unto Jonathan, son of Henry, and he was sore afraid. "Lo," said one of the seraphim as with twain he did cover his eyes, and with twain he did cover his ears and with twain he did cover his mouth, making of consequence his "Lo" wondrously muffled...