Word: soured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...obvious that Mr. Hoover and Mr. Gibson are in a complete fog about the past. . . . These are a series of sour stories about the European peoples who had the impertinence to defeat the Germans in the First World War. . . . How does it happen that Mr. Hoover and Mr. Gibson, so severe on states that are stumbling blocks to their neighbors, have hardly a word to say against Germany? This book is full of propaganda, direct and indirect, in favor of the common enemy. . . . There are hints that the United Nations are really as bad as anybody else...
...Dorlans. The Duce began by ticking off King Vittorio Emanuele, presumably as insurance against the unlikely prospect that the sour-faced little monarch decides either to abdicate or convert his House of Savoy into a bargain basement for peace terms. Mussolini pointedly recalled a decree of May 10, 1936, which elevated him to rank jointly with the King as "first marshal of Italy." Thus the King (constitutionally Commander in Chief of all armed forces) can legally make overtures to the Allies only with the consent and participation of the Duce...
...arrive to turn it into a delivery room. Another set of prospective parents also pay a call, but obligingly scram before the place becomes an out-&-out maternity ward. Between whiles there are some highly transient maids, some escapist drinking by the long-suffering older folk, and a sour maiden aunt who, deprived of her bed, is forced to take cot luck in the living room...
...reporters folded up and went away. Glamor peeled off, the big house on R Street looked like an old coat of paint. The tantalizing dinners, the high-blown conversation turned as sour and dull as their host's description of them. James Porter Monroe was nothing but dull proof once again that anyone with a fast line, some stationery, a telephone, an expense account, can fool Washington. He did not know his way around; he had no influence. Washington bigwigs went to his house because they are always going to somebody's house. Washington reporters knew all this...
While U.S. and British newsmen were roundly criticizing U.S. military aircraft in the first eight months after Pearl Harbor (on the basis of their spotty combat showing) most U.S. air soldiers had a stock and sour reply: "Wait and see." Only constitutionally cheerful "Hap" Arnold, chief of the Air Forces, had much good to say about U.S. warplanes in public. This week he had his inning...