Word: sores
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Boston spawned a new disease in 1951, doctors there concluded after studying reports of 2,450 cases. Still unnamed, it is mild and so like German measles that only an immunologist could tell them apart. It usually attacks children, gives them a red rash, sore throat, muscle aches, and a short-lived fever of 102° F. Now that doctors know what to look for, they will probably find it outside Boston...
...things, for the civilized world to be led now by a nation which gleefully washes its soiled linen in public and makes belligerent noises at everyone in sight, while wondering what the hell to do next ... I am . . . bemused by the gay ambivalence of the U.S. citizenry, which gets sore if Eisenhower is criticized but cheers when told that his administration "stinks." It's just this sort of subtle, penetrant reasoning that gives us all such confidence in the future...
...Grey was in bad trouble. After a brisk nine-furlong workout at Belmont one morning last week, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's Native Dancer (TIME, May 31) pulled up with a sore right forefoot. Trainer Bill Winfrey could feel a suspicious warmth just above the hoof, but X rays showed no internal injury. Two days later, the colt galloped a couple of miles on the training track and snorted home with no sign of pain. Relieved, Winfrey began to step up the Dancer's training, but after a three-furlong breeze, the Big Grey came back in such distress...
...letter is to protest the existence of a street called McCarthy Road, which grazes the University just east of Fair Dunster House. For the most part, Harvard has been able to escape the influence of McCarthyism. But to keep this street so named is to irritate a running sore on the elbow of the University. I think the governors of the University, who pay so much in taxes to the City of Cambridge, should prevail upon the Cambridge fathers to change the name of McCarthy Road to Welch Boulevard. Thus would an evil influence be eliminated, and a true...
...righthander has drawn raves all over the American League circuit. "He's the fastest thing I've seen since Bob Feller was at his best," said New York Yankee Manager Casey Stengel. "This fellow throws lightning bolts." Baltimore's Catcher Clint Courtney, gingerly waving a sore hand, says, "Turley's the fastest guy I ever caught...