Word: sourest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dallas distaste for the Redskins seemed to have been diluted recently by greater dread of other teams, particularly the Pittsburgh Steelers, but also the Philadelphia Eagles. The sourest personal feuds had dried up and blown away. Diron Talbert, a singularly unruly Redskins tackle, especially had it in for Cowboys Quarterback Roger Staubach. Both are retired now. The Cowboys had won the last six Washington-Dallas games, including a 24-10 victory last month. But then this season bloomed for the Redskins into the most blessed of all their 46 years. During the eight-week strike, most of their tough games...
...embassy before in the ten months since Shah Reza Pahlavi had been forced out of Iran by the Muslim revolution. In February, Marxist guerrillas had seized the embassy and held it for nearly two hours. That time, forces loyal to the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, in what now seems the sourest of ironies, came to the rescue of Ambassador William Sullivan and some 100 embassy employees. Since then the ambassador had left, dependents had been sent home, and the garrison staff that remained had grown accustomed to angry commotion in the streets...