Word: sourfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doors, we decided to stay downstairs. We were hungry, so the two of us and John ordered a Bowl ($9.75), and Dan ordered a beer (prices range $2.25-$2.75). The waiter called over the manager, who carded us. We also ordered Peking ravioli, dun-dun noodles and sweet-and-sour chicken (food's expensive...
When Israel began bombing Beirut in 1982, Kalb said, "the American press' fascination with Israel...started to turn sour." Ever since, the media has reflected a distinct anti-Israel bias, Kalb said...
...there is no great mess. Charisma does not stink. The odors left by Iran-Contra, Pentagon scandals and other Reagan-era problems are mild--sour milk, not rubbish...
...cozy, catlike lesbian named Jeanne, shows herself, in the book's best characterization, to be malicious and totally self-absorbed. Most important, Polly's research, which she and her friends assume will prove that Painter Jones was abused and underrated by the men in her life, goes awkwardly sour. It turns out that Jones was indeed a genius but that she was far harder on men than they were...
...couple of weeks after the trials, news turned sour. The team's freshest ) and most promising woman sprinter, a square-rigged stormer named Angel Myers, from Americus, Ga., who had qualified in ba timlibthree events, was banished for a drug violation. She claimed that tests misread a birth-control drug as a steroid. But she was out, replaced by Butterflyer Janel Jorgensen and Freestyler Jill Sterkel (who thus made her fourth Olympic team...