Word: soured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flame gave her the tiny refuge, rich in cobwebs and dust. A sodden, half-rotted rug still lay across a low marble bench. Overhead the roof caved in rather drunkenly. 'But it is a roof,' Frossia said, pushed the bolt in the small door, supped off a sour milk tart and a hard-boiled egg, got a rug and some shawls out of the sack, snuffed out the candle and slept; a vagabond come back within her own gates...
Martin Dies, redheaded, brassbound Congressman from Texas, vexed by Walter Winchell's sour comments on the "unAmerican activities" of Dies's Committee on Un-American Activities, took to the air to call the columnist a "tool [of the] smearbund," proceeded to do some smearing himself. Under Blue Network rules. Winchell could make no fresh charges until Dies answered his old ones. Dies didn't. They met in the studio after the smearcast, grinned like happy pseudo-warriors. Winchell: "Let's get together and tell some more lies about each other." Dies: "I'd have...
...British invasion base, the Allied press lost a major engagement: its freedom of expression on Allied diplomatic and political policies. British stripe-trousered censorship moved in to judge what shall be sweet and what sour about Allied relations...
...advertising men found Veteran Caldwell's estimate corroborated in other quarters. From all the evidence, U.S. advertising had struck some sour notes with the men in uniform. Variety, after interviewing news commentators returned from overseas, reported: "The G.I.s, they say, resent the constant emphasis on the rose-tinted postwar conditions that will prevail back home at a time when the burden of the battle must still be borne. The commentators say the fighting boys, after catching a gander at such ads in magazines and newspapers sent to the front, throw them away in disgust...
...Candidates. Liberal President Rafael Angel Calderón Guardia, author of an employer-hated labor code, cannot constitutionally succeed himself. Candidate of his Republican Party is handsome Teodoro Picado. Candidate of the opposition Democrats is sour-faced León Cortés, now supported by most of Costa Rica's capitalists and landowners...