Word: soured
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Louisville can only have left the President wishing that he could so easily sail back into his magic. Until the debate, the presidential campaign had been a disengaged and ghostly pageant, on either side a kind of somnambulation: Reagan working under a charm, Mondale under some sour malediction. After Louisville, the campaign began to develop, Like a Polaroid picture in one's hand as the images start to come clear...
Despite the day's display of high spirits, however, there is an undercurrent of restlessness in the traditionally volatile country. Unless Ardito Barletta can somehow subdue it, that sour mood could undermine his new presidency. Said General Manuel Antonio Noriega, the power ful head of Panama's 14,000-member National Defense Forces: "I see very big and dark clouds on the horizon...
...campuses had to confront the specter of angry hecklers drowning out or scaring away invited speakers, but with the return of the custom, President Bok thought it time to explain why the thing is important. But though this is a good, workman-like job, Bok's discourse leaves a sour taste--and the feeling that he has expended a lot of hot air at the expenses of moral leadership...
...surveys showed a 10% jump in the "state of the nation index," the fastest rise recorded by Yankelovich before or since. Carter's improbable, romantic victory sent spirits higher still, to a level not reached again until this year. But after his first year, the mood started to sour, declining further after the American embassy staff was imprisoned in Tehran...
...eight-nation Asian tour, all seemed fine as two elephants tromboned a welcome, but then his musicians began raising a cacophony of complaints about the hotel accommodations. "Unbearable," screeched a violinist. "There are bugs in the bed," one musician whined. "And cockroaches," chimed in another. Mehta quieted the sour-note chorus by allowing a move to a more hospitable hostelry. In the end, though, the conductor heard the sweet sounds he had come for: the concert was greeted with thunderous applause...