Word: soured
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hardly a ringing endorsement, but that statement by a sour Senator Barry Goldwater nevertheless ended a two-week furor in Washington over the fitness of William Joseph Casey, 68, to stay on as head of the Central Intelligence Agency. The Senate Intelligence Committee, which Goldwater leads, promised to push on with its investigation of Casey, but Ronald Reagan's former campaign manager clearly had won, on points, one of the nastiest brawls in Washington since the President took office. In a broader sense, however, everyone lost. Casey remained under suspicion. Goldwater and other Senators who attacked Casey prematurely...
...Marriage is first of all a new creation for the partners themselves ... But any marriage which is turned in upon itself, in which the bride and groom simply gaze obsessively at one another, goes sour after a time. A marriage which really works is one which works for others ... If we solved all our economic problems and failed to build loving families, it would profit us nothing, because the family is the place where the future is created good and full of love-or deformed...
...trillion. What if the defense bills fall due in an economy still beset by high unemployment and inflation? Then, says Georgia's Sam Nunn, a Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee and a vociferous advocate of a stronger defense, "it won't take the public any longer to sour on defense than on the Great Society." Similar worries have been set forth by the increasingly vehement voice of the military reform movement, a loose coalition of military officers, civilian defense consultants, and some Senators and Congressmen who span the political spectrum from right-wing Republican to liberal Democrat...
...anyone afflicted with a sweet tooth, Government rulings in the past decade have been decidedly sour. First the Food & Drug Administration barred cyclamates because they might bring on bladder cancer. Then after saccharin was also linked to bladder cancer, the agency proposed banning that sweetener, an action averted only by an act of Congress. Last week the FDA broke new ground, announcing its approval of a low-calorie sugar substitute called aspartame...
...patronized an ancient bar in New York City's Yorkville neighborhood--an establishment that was subsequently turned into a singles bar frequented by professional hockey players. Tended by a genial Irish giant named Ned, the bar had fallen on difficult times and was forced to accept the whiskey-sour-or-rum-and-coke indignities of my friends and me. And like all good neighborhood bars, the Shamrock had its share of local bums who always depended on Ned and his colleagues for a nightly snort...