Word: soured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happy, fat man is also better for a defense lawyer than a skinny, sour man "with vinegar in his veins," according to Leibowitz...
...Master of Soil. The good farmer knows what to do. He adds lime and fertilizer and grows grass or clover or alfalfa. Gradually the thin, sour forest soil turns into something like chernozem. The well-kept farms of New York State, Pennsylvania and Ohio are now far more fertile than they were when the pioneers (who so vex Vogt) first felled the forest...
...Valpey got his first taste of a fall nor' caster yesterday and it was pretty sour. If it had been any day but Monday, the weather would have ruined football practice...
...George Marshall drove through Athens, the people (who had not been told of his visit until just before his arrival) thronged the streets and cried: "Zeto [hurrah] Marshall!" He drove to the headquarters of the U.S. military mission -nicknamed the "Temple of Knowledge" by sour Greek officers-for talks with the U.S. staff. To correspondents, U.S. officers explained that no decisive action was possible this year because winter had already come to the mountains in northern Greece. All that could be done was to contain the guerrillas, and prepare a spring offensive. Remarked Ambassador Grady: "The situation ... is not completely...
...Jersey City, tall, sour-faced Boss Frank Hague (who had once predicted that Truman would lose New Jersey by 300,000 votes) now did his best for Harry. Fireworks spouted like golden fountains and for a mile the crowds were jammed 40 deep. In Albany-Tom Dewey's home territory-some 10,000 people stood through an early morning downpour to hear...