Word: soured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps it is just sour grapes on my part, but I was rejected for active duty when my National Guard unit was inducted, because I had pleural effusion back...
...unlike his father as tee and green. At 14, the Old Man was short and chubby. Young Bobby is nearly six feet tall, weighs 195 Ib. At 14, the Old Man was already a perfectionist, with eight years of painstaking practice behind him. When he made a sour shot, he would turn purple, talk purple, fling his club toward the next county. Young Bobby is happy-go-lucky, prone to grin rather than groan when he misses a three-foot putt. At 14, the Old Man could break 70.* Young Bobby is happy if he can break...
...Warner experiments are borne out, the detoxicant mixture may be of great help in industrial poisonings, for it works effectively on lead, benzol (a solvent) and carbon tetrachloride (used in the cleaning industry). For human consumption, the detoxicants are made up in small white pills, which taste like strong, sour orange juice. Physicians are trying them on patients at several large medical schools, for alcoholism, toxemias of pregnancy, arthritis...
...Mother Liquor and Yellow Chartreuse, for instance-he can speak of life as a bee might speak of its hive. He can also give masterly expression to his generally impeccable distastes, as in his Lines on Anyone's Lines along Certain Lines: Is this the shape Of the sour grape? Perhaps the most uncommonly good poems in And What's More are a half-dozen among a group about a baby...
...should a group of ultra-conservative trustees of the Metropolitan take it upon themselves to decide that the year 1900 or some other magic date in the past represents the end of art so far as they are concerned, and that the collection of some sour Sienese madonnas is more important than the stimulation of living artists...