Word: sorest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Others on the receiving end of her spite might have been happy with a handshake. When Bobby was Attorney General, Ethel seethed at FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's ill-concealed disdain for his young boss. So she jabbed away at Hoover's sorest point, his running feud with Los Angeles Police Chief William Parker. Into Hoover's personal suggestion box one day she popped a note, signed by her, saying "Parker for FBI Director...
...threatens the stability of the dollar. By a variety of techniques, Kennedy cut the annual deficit from the $3.9 billion he inherited to $2.2 billion last year. But in the first half of 1963, the rate soared to $5.2 billion-and, to the Kennedy Administration, became one of the sorest of all subjects...
...every Governor in sight, McNamara read a speech pointing out that the reshuffling of the Guard would cause a decrease of only 295 units from the present total of 4,336. Only 16 of the 2,428 armories, he promised, would be left without a unit. And, on the sorest point of all, he noted that the proposed manpower cut of 33,000 would not be too difficult to achieve since the Guard loses 100,000 men each year by normal attrition. He was too diplomatic to add that in many states the Guard now has to recruit desperately...
LADAKH (pop. 80,000), Kashmir's northeast bulge, is the sorest of all. A high, arid plateau with a jungle of peaks rising out of it, Ladakh is claimed by both India and Pakistan in their acrid dispute over the control of Kashmir. Indian defence forces must thus be on the lookout for both the Chinese and the Pakistanis. Polyandry is the most widespread feature of Ladakh society; when a woman marries a man, she often marries his younger brothers also. When the eldest brother dies, the widow can divorce the younger husbands by tying her finger...