Word: sores
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discredit the President. They sold off huge chunks of stock, prices went way down, as was planned, but then things got out of control." California's Maurice Soble, 67, a retired toy-store owner, had it all figured out: "They're doing it because they're sore at the President for refusing to knuckle under on steel prices. It's a conspiracy, you can be sure of that...
...before. After all, said Salinger, the boss "can read just so many papers. We get five New York newspapers now,* and that gives us quite a spread of opinion. In fact, the people around here have been reading the Herald Tribune less and less." Was the President sore at the Trib? Well, no, said Salinger. Then he noticed that no one seemed to believe...
...Good for Treasure. Ancient rubbish, garbage and human excreta are easily detectable. So are buried walls, whose stones usually have different magnetic properties from the material that covers them. Empty spaces, such as buried tombs, stick out like magnetic sore thumbs. Most conspicuous of all are objects of iron or steel, but the magnetometer does not detect gold and silver, and it will be of little use to treasure seekers...
...journalism was no get-rich-quick scheme for skinning the big-city rubes. Billie Sol was out to get even with some local types. He had been beaten in a school-board election last spring, and it was the Independent that had helped to beat him. Billie Sol was sore; he had wanted to get on that board to keep the boys and girls in Pecos High from swimming in the same pool or dancing on the premises. He retaliated by buying his own printing press. The first thing anybody in Pecos knew, he had hired 38 newsmen at handsome...
Hamlin may not yet be at full strength. Chris Ohris will be hampered by sore heels, and Art Doten and Jack Spitzberg will probably remain inactive...