Word: soured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later, Burt Wheeler, sour on the whole performance, said of the heckling G.I.s: "A couple of Commies." Said G.I.s of the touring Senators: "They're bums...
clinker-a bad or sour musical note...
...fellow reporter who had been trying vainly to get details about a lynching out of a sour, close-mouthed town official was about to stamp out when in minced the cherubic Woollcott, pencil poised. "Mr. Shallcross," he piped to the official, "I represent the New York Times, which must insist that you take immediate measures to fetch the perpetrators of this wholly unnecessary outrage to book or justice or whatever your quaint custom may be here...
...Broadway columnists may be thankful for the public's short memory-but none more so than the New York Daily News's dandyish Danton Walker. Either not knowing or not caring how often his "predictions" go sour, 17 U.S. newspapers (circ. 9,000,000) now run his daily offerings...
...news? At bars where newsmen gather, pinning the blame will be a soul-searching pastime for years to come. But that miscarriage of news and the possibilities of similar miscarriages posed a bigger problem than the morals of the Associated Press's Ed-ward Kennedy, whose "scoop" went sour...