Word: sores
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When Kennedy was shepherding the labor-reform act of 1959 through the Senate, he would brief me outside the chamber, lounging on that sore tailbone of his, making marvelously irreverent cracks about recalcitrant Senate colleagues and the pretty secretaries who walked by. During the 1960 campaign, I watched him up close: at Wisconsin factory gates at 5 a.m., in the New Hampshire snow, tramping through the hamlets of West Virginia. His days ran 20 hours. I felt more debilitated than he looked. True, J.F.K. didn't indulge in displays of physical prowess (no push-ups or arm wrestling). He just...
...body shot upwards, Hunsberger was surprised to find that his forward progress was suddenly stopped and that his body was hurtling sideways. Sophomore defensive back Bobby Everett laid a halacious hit on Hunsberger in midair, causing the already-sore Lions’ QB to soar out of bounds, a full four yards short of the first down...
McDavitt, clutching ice to her sore face after the game, cursed her team’s finish—short of Princeton yet again—and hoped Harvard could still sneak into the NCAA tournament field...
...Palestinian issue, on the other hand, has become an open sore that continues to erode the long-term strength of Washington's war on terror. The Palestinian plight has become the fulcrum on which the Muslim world's attitudes toward the West turn - and despite the hopes of some Administration hawks, that's unlikely to change even if the U.S. pulls off regime change in Baghdad. As much as the U.S. - and many Palestinians too - would like to see regime change in Palestine, it won't happen so long as Israeli tanks keep the West Bank in lockdown and allow...
...Sivas Martyrs" quickly appeared on the walls of Alevi culture centers across Europe. Says Karan: "Those of us who were born in Germany began to wonder about our identity, and young parents began to realize they wanted to pass something on to their kids." The Sivas incident remains a sore point in Germany, where a man convicted of instigating the attack has been granted political asylum and the applications of two others are pending. Alevi leaders are using their newfound political muscle to fight for the perpetrators' extradition to Turkey. But many of the younger Alevis have raised the question...