Word: soured
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...foreign issues, and at a time when events--including the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and U.S. insecurity induced by the hostage crisis--had chilled superpower relations. But the Administration's earlier stridency on E1 Salvador and apocalyptic pronouncements on the Soviets and nuclear war helped, if anything, to sour enthusiasm for its massive military shopping spree, and the apparent drift towards East-West confrontation of some kind was sufficiently unnerving to provoke the first large scale American public discussion of nuclear war in two decades. For whatever reason--and certainly the reliably grim economic news is a prime factor...
...seizure of the Falkland Islands by Argentina is an act that cannot be justified by any reasoning. Nevertheless, where was Britain's concern for self-determination when it took the Falklands from Argentina almost 150 years, ago? Great Britain's current reaction is more a case of sour grapes and wounded pride than any genuine desire to right a terrible wrong. The sun set on the British Empire a long time ago. History has long recognized that fact. The British should also...
Most Americans would probably agree with the INS's premise that illegal workers should not be stealing jobs from U.S. citizens. But last week's sweeping police action left a sour taste, especially in view of its meager returns. The arrest of a few thousand people seemed a curious way to reduce the number of unemployed (10 million) or illegal aliens (some 3 million). - By Janice Castro. Reported by David S. Jackson/Washington and Alessandra Stanley /Los Angeles, with other bureaus...
...annual report. But, in the long run. Bok's words will serve only to clarify that the president of Harvard likes the idea of federal aid to students--in general. Aside from a few loose suggestions for the feds to consider. Bok's report says nothing that, like the sour bells that sound from Lowell House every Sunday afternoon, is not painfully predictable...
...English-born Barrett entered the Church of England ministry after his career as an aviation designer turned sour (he quit as a moral protest in 1951, when nuclear rocketry began taking over the field), and he made his way to Nairobi. There he served as a researcher for the Anglicans. "We are neither East nor West here," he says, "and Africa is also the continent where the religious ferment is one of the greatest in the world today...