Word: soured
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...standing as comfortably and solidly as the Washington Monument. "Where y'all been?" he would ask Barbara Walters or Dan Rather. Manning, of course, had already tamed the natives and educated them in the ways of the American media. He was calm and shrewd and as smooth as sour mash from Tennessee, from whence he hailed. He never failed. Somehow, the mobile White House was always plugged into the rest of the world...
...drink the dregs of very sour beer...
...speech as "the capstone of his various disarmament proposals," and indeed Reagan did repeat his suggestions for elimination of intermediate-range land-based missiles in Europe and a one-third reduction in strategic nuclear warheads deployed by the U.S. and U.S.S.R. But as delegates from 157 nations, including a sour-faced Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, listened in silence, Reagan also launched into a denunciation of Soviet behavior as blistering as any that he used to make on the campaign trail. The President...
Once START actually begins, of course, the attitude that will count will not be that of the U.N. delegates but the one adopted by the Soviet Union. Presidential aides dismiss any thought that the harsh tone of Reagan's U.N. speech would sour the negotiating atmosphere. Indeed, Reagan was not the only tough talker last week. In his speech to the U.N., Gromyko accused the U.S. of showing a "militaristic frenzy" in its arms buildup and beaming this message to the world: "If you want peace, then it's full steam ahead for war." But when Gromyko...
This is hardly encouraging news for the G.O.P. as it prepares for the November elections. The public is sour and skeptical, and what limited hopes it has are plainly invested in Reagan himself. The big question now is how long the President can fly above the dark clouds without crashing. -By John F. Stacks