Word: soured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What a tender and perceptive look at middle age! Still, the idea that youth is at a disadvantage because of what it lacks in experience is a sour grape most of us in the latter group will not willingly swallow. Let us look for the compensations of our stage in life without tearing up the memories of the days when we too were young and blissfully ignorant...
...life. This baby stares at the world with a fixed, forlorn expression; he is devoid of reflexes; he cannot coordinate sucking and swallowing. Later he may seem to cry-but without tears. He will never revel in the joys of candy; he cannot taste the difference between sweet and sour. When he burns himself, he may not even feel the pain. He is a victim of dysautonomia-an inherited malfunction of the nervous system...
...then, he has been one of the Brown brothers' chief lieutenants in the one area where their taste is as sharp as it is for bourbon: profits. By sticking with such high-quality, wide-profit-margin labels as Early Times and Jack Daniel's Old Time Tennessee Sour Mash Whiskey, the company has prospered even in an industry dominated by such behemoths as Seagram (1965 sales: $1 billion). With sales of $154 million for the twelve months that ended in April, Brown-Forman distilled record profits of $10.3 million...
...second half of the picture the mood changes from tangy to sour. The fun's over, even though the director won't admit it. Society begins to marinate Morgan. People stop oogling the cute little animal and get worried he'll make on the living room...
...Sour." On the face of it, "black power," a slogan probably used first by Negro Novelist Richard Wright (Native Son) after a 1953 visit to Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana, seems nothing more than an appeal to the long-submerged racial pride of Negroes. "It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with black supremacy or hating whites," says John McDermott, head of Chicago's Catholic Interracial Council, "but it can go sour in that...