Word: soured
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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UNTIL SEVERAL MONTHS AGO, it was not possible to eat a corned beef sandwich in the dining hall--unless, of course, you bought one in Tommy's Lunch and snuck it in. Half-sour pickles and black bean soup were equally unavailable. And forget about Dr. Brown's soda...
...platefuls of corned brisket, half-sour pickles and baked apples later, a certain Crimson editor was overheard vowing never to take anonymous tips lightly again...
...reality of war isn't pretty: it includes maiming, decapitation--sons and daughters burned, shot and bayonetted. But if the government insists on hiding this reality from the public, there is nothing to stop us from continuing wars that have already turned sour, or from going to war unnecessarily in the future...
...THIS WAR turns sour--and I am almost certain it will--I suppose we can always tell ourselves that we didn't really believe everything we were being told, even though we kept our reservations to ourselves. I'm sure that will make us feel better in 30 years, when all we have to remember are a few pages in some history book and a military cemetary conveniently hidden in some far-away town...
...part, the FDIC hopes to sell the failed banks to a strong institution by the end of the year. But the agency will have to swallow up to $6 billion of sour loans, and the messy task of liquidating them, to make the deal appealing to buyers. The FDIC said it was talking with six possible suitors for the banks, including Ohio's prosperous Banc One Corp. and San Francisco-based BankAmerica Corp., the second largest U.S. banking company behind Citicorp in New York City...