Word: sourfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...handshake" loans on long-shot oil and gas ventures. Says Texas Governor Mark White: "Midland helped a lot of people to make a lot of money." So last week when the troubled First National Bank of Midland was about to collapse under the burden of energy loans gone sour, the community staged a pep rally to stem a run on its deposits. About a thousand citizens gathered in Midland's Civic Center, many of them wearing lapel stickers that proclaimed I'M CONFIDENT. Oilman John Redfern Jr. told the crowd, "I hope you'll rake around, find...
...easier for the audience to read the first and second acts as a light hearted attempt to poke fun at campus stereotypes rather than as a statement about their motives. But this lighthearted tone strikes a sour note at the end of the second act with the tragedy of Joan for which the audience is unprepared...
...long, expensive way from here." Even the officials of the international Olympic committee were discouraging. "For your 1932 ambitions, it now does not look so certain," they told Garland two years before the flags were to be set fluttering at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Coupled with the sour economic situation was a darkening political climate. Adolf Hitler, who was not yet in power but spreading his poison in Germany nonetheless, succeeded in blocking funds to send German competitors abroad: good Germans, he said, should not be mixing with foreigners...
...B.M.I, accepted for publication They Started Something (But We're Gonna End It!), by Robert Sour, Don McCray and Ernest Gold. Some of 260 titles submitted in three days: Let's Take a Rap at the Japs, Taps for the Japs, Those Nasty Nasty Nazis...
Since the Reagan policy deviates from the position of Jimmy Carter, it has helped sour the United States's relations with many Black African nations, and has been exploited by South Africa. Whenever questions of Namibian independence has been discussed, facts pertaining to the policy and the dispute should not be presented inaccurately by any newspaper, school daily or otherwise. The next time Williams or any Crimson editor writes a story that mentions the Namibia dispute they should first research the facts. The Western countries have, then far, failed to convince South Africa to relinquish its control over Namibia...