Word: soured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Music for the fun of it, with nobody listening," is the motto of the newest Yardling enterprise, an informal orchestra open to tooters and would be tooters, no matter how sweet or sour...
Last week the Japanese polished up the sour-grapes formula. Withdrawal was taking place, said Japanese headquarters, because "the purpose of the campaign has been accomplished." Since the military advantage of taking Changsha was to block the supply routes which lead through it (TIME, Oct. 6), this was nonsense. With a straight face the Tokyo press declared that the Japanese Army was withdrawing after victory because "Japanese forces can no longer bear to see innocent Chinese people suffering the war's disaster...
...been done to remove priority red tape. Latin America was losing patience. So were those U.S. officials who had worked long and hard to be Good Neighbors. Said one: "If this red tape isn't broken by the end of October, hemisphere defense is going to start getting sour...
...roadside mud. The front half of an armored car is parked in the shadow of what was once a house. A bent, bullet-riddled fragment of what had been a tank lies near a dirt-caked helmet. The helmet looks like a tortoise's back: it smells sour...
...Most of this area has been reconquered, and the slightly sour smell of death hovers over it. ... Fields have been chewed by tractor and tank treads and pitted by shellbursts...