Word: soured
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inexorably, the recession affecting the whole industrialized West came to be felt more and more painfully, and in Britain the promised Thatcher recovery did not begin. By last autumn, the public mood had turned sour. When the poor year-end statistics were made public, Thatcher was being pilloried for what Labor's Denis Healey, former Chancellor of the Exchequer, called her "punk monetarism." Said Eric Varley, Labor's spokesman on employment matters: "The consequences of this doctrinaire obsession are still wreaking havoc in every part of the country." Thatcher's own Industry Secretary, Sir Keith Joseph, glumly admitted that...
...world outside, her policies and her government were being buffeted by bleak statistics and sour skepticism. But in her quietly elegant office at No. 10 Downing Street, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was a study in controlled serenity nearing the end of another demanding day. Wearing a sleek black and gold-lamé dinner gown she had chosen for an earlier portrait sitting, she talked animatedly with London Bureau Chief Bonnie Angelo and TIME'S Frank Melville. On economic issues she was the patient teacher, with some pointers for the new occupant of the White House. On world affairs...
...nation's present sour mood of high skepticism and low expectations is in sharp contrast with the national ebullience that surrounded Carter's beginnings as President. At that tune 47% of Americans felt the country was in good shape, compared with 18% who feel that way now. Moreover, Carter, though his electoral victory over Gerald Ford was far narrower than Reagan's victory last fall, arrived in office riding a larger wave of personal popularity than Reagan does now. Four years ago, 62% of the public expressed trust and confidence in Carter. Now just 48% feel that...
That approval came two days before the U.S. presidential election (which was also, by another sour irony, the first anniversary of the hostages' seizure). The Majlis is too arrogant, chauvinistic and factional a body to have timed its crucial decision to help Carter, a man hysterically despised by Muslim fundamentalists in any case. But it seemed that way to campaign officials on both sides. Hours after the Majlis vote, early Sunday morning by U.S. time, hostage families were telephoned by the State Department and told to be prepared for a breakthrough. Many of them made ready...
Tonight at 7:30 in the IAB, in the Crimson's first game of 1981, a highly touted team from Villanova will do its best to turn that resolution sour. Not that a loss to the Wildcats would kill Harvard's season completely--the Crimson still has only one Ivy League loss--but as Boutilier said, "winning this one would be a great way to start the new year...