Word: soured
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Your retelling of D-day reminded me of my landing on Juno Beach with the Canadian 3rd Division. My first contact with the French occurred when I encountered the village cure. He had a sour look, perhaps because a shell had torn a hole in the spire of his 17th century church. "Bonjour, Monsieur le Curé," I greeted him. "Are you happy that we have come?" "Yes," he replied, "but I will be happier when you leave." Memories like this give me mixed emotions when I march with my fellow veteran survivors...
...Super Tuesday I. Then he seized Illinois, New York and Pennsylvania, setting up another knockout chance on Super Tuesday II. Yet the equally dogged Hart had jolted pollsters once more, winning in Ohio and Indiana. Early on Wednesday morning, Mondale's strategists found the reports from California turning sour. Would their man be stymied short of a delegate majority after...
...does Block seem to have received any special break after the agricultural economy turned sour. He and his partners paid interest rates of up to 19.5%. Now that the value of farm land is falling,* banks are demanding collateral on formerly unsecured loans to their farmer-borrowers, including Block. The Secretary's press aide, John Ochs, says that since Jan. 1, Block has put up collateral on "most" of his loans. Just where all that leaves his personal finances is uncertain. His disclosure statement lists assets worth somewhere between $3.6 million and $4.8 million vs. liabilities of between...
Odorless chemical stimulants were employed to activate the four basic tastes-bitter, salty, sweet and sour. The tests were both qualitative, meaning that I was asked to identify each taste at very low concentrations, and quantitative, meaning that I was asked to rate the intensity of different concentrations. During Bartoshuk's "whole-mouth" test, when I rinsed with the diluted solutions, I wore headphones and was asked to rate the strength of sound tones administered intermittently by Dr. Lawrence E. Marks, an auditory psychophysicist. This procedure, known as magnitude matching, is used as a form of control. Psychophysicists have...
...these bitter stimuli have two recessive genes. It was interesting to notice how the tastes literally "felt" as they were being washed over the tongue. Salt and sweet were warm and pleasant; sweet was the most relaxing and salt was exhilarating. Bitterness curled the edges of the tongue. Sour felt icy and caused the surface of the tongue to contract...