Word: soured
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...social reform, as it might, it actively impedes the understanding of individual differences. Instead of becoming more cosmopolitan and humane, my best friend from high school has learned bigotry and contempt for differences. He fervently believes the Navy's accusation--almost certainly false--that a homosexual romance gone sour was responsible for the deaths of 47 of his shipmates in an explosion on the USS Iowa. He has been taught--in the absence of any openly gay or lesbian peers--that homosexuality is a threat to the integrity of the United States...
...seen from Moscow, every silver lining has a cloud. There was something distinctly sour, even ominous, about last week's May Day demonstrations in Red Square. Some banners demanded faster and bolder progress toward a free market (A NEW SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC ORDER NOW!), while others warned that resistance is already building to the hardships reform will entail, especially inflation and unemployment (FOOD IS NOT A LUXURY, PROTECT OUR JOBS!). Mikhail Gorbachev, who must reconcile that contradiction in the months ahead, left the reviewing stand atop Lenin's tomb, as jeers rose from the crowd below...
...Indochina was more than just an exercise in global strategy. The desire to help people preserve their freedom and improve their lives was an important justification for committing U.S. soldiers to battle. The lingering pain of Vietnam is due, in part, to the realization that the idealism turned sour. For the half-million Vietnam vets suffering from post- traumatic-stress disorder and even for those who have adjusted well, a U.S. return to Vietnam might ameliorate the sense that America left a job unfinished. McClellan puts it this way: "Every time we walked down that road at the beginning...
Garrett, meanwhile, is not talking. But his biography quotes him as saying two years ago that "if I were unemployed, I would probably start a winery." By now, there are probably more than enough sour grapes to start the first batch...
...grasp of the homeless. When then Mayor Ed Koch urged Gothamites two years ago to stop giving to panhandlers because many "just don't want to work for a living," residents shrugged off the curmudgeonly remark as the latest from the city's self-appointed curmudgeon. But Koch's sour mood has caught on over the past twelve months, surfacing recently in cartoons, editorials, dinner conversations and official campaigns to move the city's vagrants out of its subway, bus and train stations...